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NNTP_SSL.getline() uses a regular expression because the
NNTP_SSL code is a rather straightforward port of the
corresponding
SSL code from the poplib.py module.

I think it is a good idea to refactor the code to avoid code
duplication
in the various modules using SSL (and maybe also for the
different
authentication methods like AUTH CRAM_MD5 etc.), however
such a large refactoring is probably beyond the scope of a
submitted patch.