SS> Before I run down the rabbit hole of hacking together at least a    
    SS> DIGEST-MD5 -- something that protects user passwords from going in the    
    SS> clear;  I wanted to see if anyone else has started or in the midst of    
    SS> working on the same?   
      
    BP> from clamav:   
      
    BP> echo "password" | sigtool --md5 >user.md5   
      
    BP> put that in the password field, and send this in netmail, problem   
    BP> solved    
      
   the OP is talking about the password submitted during the nntp authentication   
   process... not the one that is sent to the admin from the user for signup...   
      
   what you describe would simple be using the md5 of the password as the   
   password... not the same thing... something has to encode and decode the   
   md5... that something would be the user's nntp client and the nntp server...   
      
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