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Sat Nov 13 20:29:23 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/105570.html

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> More specifically, if, with Thunderbird, I turn on SSL/TLS, (which
> switches from port 119 to 563), I get *invalid* certificate message -
> good for aioe.org, news.aioe,org, but not nntp.aioe.org. I believe SSL
> worked before the hiatus so it might be an oversight in restarting.
>
>> Funny, it shows that the NNTP SSL tests don't check the certificate,
>> then.
>
> Or not thoroughly.

I can access gmane with SSL, so you could add a conditional (on being up 
and running) certificate check using that.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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