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Old March 27th 12, 03:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:18:17 -0400, Paul wrote:

Your news reader software, may default to port 119. That results
in anyone "looking at the packets in flight", being able to
see the message. But since your message is public anyway,
all this detail means, is they can theoretically track the
source of a new posting, to the coffee shop it's being sent
from. If you use SSL, it means that big warehouse in Utah,
has to work a little harder to crack the content :-)


How can you use SSL on newsgroups? Or are you referring to
Googlegroups?



Change port numbers, and your news reader software should do
the rest for you.

http://www.aioe.org/

"Currently, active servers a

1. nntp.aioe.org which opens the following ports:

* 119 (Plain Text and TLS)
* 563 (SSL Only)
* 443 (SSL Only)
* 22 (SSL Only)
* 80 (Plain Text and TLS)"

In the list here, at least 563 appears to be listed specifically
for NNTP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...P_port_numbers

Paul
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