Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> writes: >> can you get a newsreader to work with a https news service? > No. A newsreader works with NNTP protocol.
Traditionally NNTP over SSL was done on port 563. Some feeds now also provide it on 443 to get around client-side firewall hassles. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list