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Bug 346810

Summary:	Eclipse account does not work with NNTP server
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Wim Jongman <wim.jongman>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Wim Jongman

2011-05-22 08:09:29 EDT

Hi, my account stopped working for the NNTP server. For our GSoC project we need to login to the nntp server. Is it possible to again replicate bugzilla accounts with the nntp account database?

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2011-05-24 16:07:19 EDT

We've never replicated Bugzilla accounts to the NNTP server.  We just encourage everyone to use exquisitus.

If we did replicate Bugzilla to NNTP, we'd need to use SSL to protect our Bugzilla account information.  inn (our nntp server) is not the easiest daemon to work with, so this is not a task that is very close to my heart.

Can't your GSoC simply use the exquisitus account in the background?

Comment 2 Denis Roy

2012-03-06 19:45:59 EST

Closing as WONTFIX.  There would be too much involved to make this work for very little benefit.

Comment 3 Wim Jongman

2012-03-07 07:59:24 EST

Is there a possibility to create an NNTP account? Or must we always use the default account. I guess we could use that but if the password would ever change (e.g. because of spammers) then we would be in dire straits.

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2012-03-07 11:33:07 EST

There's no mechanism for creating accounts.  We've been using the same exquisitus account since 2001 and there are no plans to change that.

I don't think there's a market for nntp spam.  It's much more effective to simply spam a web forum, where links are actually picked up by search engines.