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

[Pete Forman]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

RFC 4642 (updated by RFC 8143) describes the use of TLS with NNTP. It
enhances the connection between NNTP client and server, primarily with
encryption but optionally with other benefits.

Of course it does nothing to improve the content of Usenet.

-- 
Pete Forman