From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
Cc: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: problem using gnus
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:27:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im118086.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3im116n2r.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com> (John Covici's message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:56:28 -0400")
John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> writes:
> OK, that worked -- thanks. Now I run into another problem -- when I
> try to post something in one of the newsgroups, first it asked me for
> a user name, since none is necessary, I just hit enter. Then it said
> do you want to post to this possibly unknown newsgroup. When I said
> yes, it started reading -- I cancelled after 3 megabytes, not sure if
> it wanted to read the whole newsgroup into memory or something.
> Nothing like this is mentioned in the manual -- I have not quite read
> the whole thing yet.
Can you show the definition of this server in your select methods? If
you don't have an entry for this machine in your .authinfo etc, it
should just skip authentication. Unless you've got `nntp-authinfo-force'
set to t somewhere?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-23 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-23 11:11 John Covici
2021-07-23 12:23 ` Pankaj Jangid
2021-07-23 13:19 ` John Covici
2021-07-23 15:56 ` John Covici
2021-07-23 16:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2021-07-23 16:45 ` John Covici
2021-07-23 16:51 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-07-23 17:26 ` John Covici
2021-07-23 17:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-07-23 16:52 ` Adam Sjøgren
2021-07-23 17:27 ` John Covici
2021-07-23 17:41 ` Adam Sjøgren
2021-07-23 20:14 ` John Covici
2021-07-23 22:23 ` John Covici
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