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| What is Newsgroups.com Free SSL Encryption? |
| SSL Encryption is another layer of NNTP traffic security protection that Newsgroups.com offers at no extra charge to our customers. Just like the encryption used when credit card transactions are placed over the internet Newsgroups.com SSL encrypts the data when it leaves our servers and your news reader decrypts the data when it is downloaded. |
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| Which news readers support SSL? |
| SSL Encryption is a new feature that has recently been implemented into Newsgroup service. Currently only a select number of news reader support SSL, but the list is growing as developers implement this feature into their newsreaders. Provided below is a list of three of the most common and easy to use news readers that support SSL Encryption. |
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Microsoft Outlook Express
NewsBin Pro 5.0
Newsleecher 3.8 |
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| SSL and ISP traffic shaping? |
| To reduce the amount of bandwidth used by customers some ISP's have implemented what is best known as traffic shaping or bandwidth throttling. Some ISP's have implemented traffic shaping to help lower the amount of bandwidth used by high bandwidth customers, which in theory should increase the speeds for everyone on the network. Traffic shaping can significantly lower your download speeds especially when using Newsgroups high speed Usenet service. By using SSL Encryption traffic shaping can some times be prevented by sending all the data from our servers to your home over a secure connection not allowing your ISP to monitor or track your bandwidth usage. |
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