Subj : NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
To   : Stephan Gebbers
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Nov 02 2025 06:23 pm

 Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
 By: Stephan Gebbers to MRO on Mon Nov 03 2025 01:30 am

> well, there is not very much documentation in the wiki or the old docs about
> NNTP. If i give my users access to NNTP i don't want them to be able to
> easily make a mess. (By default you dont have to authenticate at all to
> access NNTP for example). And if i as the sysop do not know much about the
> NNTP+synchronet details, how can i expect them users to handle it correctly.

By defualt, an anonymous/guest login can't post messages. So they won't be able to "make a mess" either.
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