New subject: USENET news on AMPRNet

15 Sep 2017

Applying for a LOTW cert is a rather painful and intrusive process outside of the USA.
Josh

-------- Original message --------
From: Ruben ON3RVH &lt;on3rvh(a)on3rvh.be&gt; 
Date: 15/09/2017  20:01  (GMT+10:00) 
To: AMPRNet working group &lt;44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu&gt; 
Subject: Re: [44net] USENET news on AMPRNet 

Why not use LOTW for authentication?
It's been done before and if you are LOTW verified it means that you are a radio
amateur

73, 

Ruben - ON3RVH

-----Original Message-----
From: 44Net [mailto:44net-bounces+on3rvh=on3rvh.be@hamradio.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Rob
Janssen
Sent: vrijdag 15 september 2017 11:43
To: 44net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: [44net] USENET news on AMPRNet

...
  Don't solve a problem that doesn't exist.

...
  Usenet access is readily and economically available. 
There are enough 
 providers that there are sites that review which is best.
 Google for 'usenet providers' and see for yourself. 
The idea of course (at least I think) wasn't to provide generic usenet access on
AMPRNet.  Instead, it would be used for closed access discussion like this mailing list. 
Only a couple of hamradio related groups.

Of course this immediately shows the practical problem: the authentication of valid
users.  You would need to maintain a table of users similar to what the mailing list now
has, and when you want a couple of news servers around the world, you would want this
access information to be somehow synchronized between them.

Additionally, you may want some groups accessible to "any radio amateur".
But then you run into the problem that has been encountered so often: how to authenticate
a radio amateur without maintaining yet another user list where new applicants have to be
validated by people who would prefer to do more valued work.

Rob

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