On 10/09/2018 16:47, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> I usually use Thunderbird to read and write messages. Crashing of 
> Thunderbird while loading a too heavy image made me go and log in to the 
> site directly as I wanted to reply. The warning I got was that the 
> connection to news.povray.org was not secure, which made me hesitate to 
> go on.
> 
> I wonder if this should not be corrected in view of the state of the 
> (internet) world nowadays. Lack of the basic site protections feels 
> wrong (and threatening) and particularly outdated.

Thanks for pointing this out. Indeed we don't have SSL enabled for the
news server as our current three-name cert is maxed out. I've set in
motion an application for a wildcard cert and when I get that I'll add
news to the SSL configuration.

-- Chris

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