Re: Gnus reads megabytes from NNTP on startup?

[Markus Leypold <leypold@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

 > Delivered-To: leypold@lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
 > From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>

 > Markus Leypold <leypold@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
 > 
 > >  * The news server (for some obscure reason) had been set up in a way
 > >    to refuse *some* commands with '480 Authentication required for
 > >    command'.  I could say 'help' but not 'list active' to the server
 > >    (tried it with telnet).
 > 
 > This is, incidentally, normal, at least in my experience for
 > password-required news servers.  It can even go farther than that,

Certainly. This I know. But the catch is that gnus doesn't recognize
nor handle this situation correctly. Furthermore I wanted to hint,
that in 'nature' there seem to occur 2 different reactions of
newsservers to clients whose name they cannot get from the DNS: Some
answer 'You have no permission to talk', and this situation IS handled
OK by Gnus.

 > allowing you to read some newsgroups but require authentication to read
 > other ones or to post.

Makes sense. Local Newsgroups just for one working group or stuff like
that.

 > 
 > News readers really have to be prepared to handle 480 responses at almost
 > any point in the NNTP dialog.

Yup.

Regards -- Markus

 > 
 > -- 
 > Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
 > 
 >