What's with all of the Case Solution and Test Bank nonsense posts?

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 15:00:53 EDT 2017


On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:12 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/10/2017 11:05 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> can you get a newsreader to work with a https news service?
>>> No.  A newsreader works with NNTP protocol.
>>
>> Traditionally NNTP over SSL was done on port 563.  Some feeds now also
>> provide it on 443 to get around client-side firewall hassles.
>
> Yes but that's not via https.

What's the meaning of "https news service" then? If it's netnews, it's
NNTP, not HTTP. If it just happens to be a web app that carries
information from a newsgroup, then that's not a news service, it's a
web forum, and there's no such thing as a generic web forum API.

ChrisA



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