Encrypted NNTP ???

I was wondering if any one know if Comcast allows for encrypted communications
from Outlook express to these news servers.
I just ran a sniffer on my internal network and captured the traffic between my
pc and the Giga news server when I updated the headers... Not to my surprise I
saw that when OE was connecting to Giganews, the main user account and password
were sent out on the wire as clear text..
I discovered this was also happening with outlook when I checked for email but I
was able to enable SSL for the email sessions. I would like to do the same for
these news servers..

J


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