Re: Newsgroup Question   
     By: Sam Alexander to DOVE-Net.Internet on Fri Jul 18 2008 04:23 pm   
      
    > I have a general question about NNTP servers.   
    >   
    > I'm starting to pick-up QT coding on the side, and Trolltech has a   
    > wonderful newsgroup where all their mailing lists are ported to.  I'd like   
    > to add this to my Sync board, but given they require authentication to log   
    > into the server I wasn't sure if it would use whatever name and email   
    > address Sync has or if they use the credentials I setup tied to the   
    > authenticated username.   
    >   
    > I wasn't sure if this is an NNTP standard or what... Just curious.   
      
   Yes, it's an NNTP standard. No Synchronet authentication uses whatever you have   
   configured in your ctrl/newslink.cfg file. See docs/newslink.txt for details.   
   For more help, ask in one of the Synchronet support discussion groups.   
      
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