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Bug 346810 - Eclipse account does not work with NNTP server
Summary: Eclipse account does not work with NNTP server
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Forums and Newsgroups (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Forums and Newsgroups inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-05-22 08:09 EDT by Wim Jongman CLA
Modified: 2012-03-07 11:33 EST (History)
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Description Wim Jongman CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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.