From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 29242 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2021 16:27:21 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Jul 2021 16:27:21 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1m6y1A-009RFo-4z for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:27:20 -0500 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1m6y19-00Afic-I9 for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:27:19 -0500 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1m6y17-00AfiR-GR for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:27:17 -0500 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1m6y15-009RFS-PF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:27:17 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=poOQ+XPJMDho+212KgvSUJ5x9xLnXboCoGnF3pL1z9Q=; b=kqDLQvkb5Z+yjQw+NEuc2ZAOaj LKjk8vH6CbiNSt4qygfsc9WtsmSpxCZ3Ug9qD+J6UTIREfR0I9e1M4DUiFhNgF7bLBFzCEh1jnvAS lXxAG3moiUos1LCnD7rjHTHvfP4hm7xfZogH805HsH5KHF3Ku1PYZ2h0vwQNCHYSZVZE=; Received: from mail.ericabrahamsen.net ([52.70.2.18]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1m6y0y-00070n-RI for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2021 18:27:11 +0200 Received: from localhost (c-71-197-184-122.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [71.197.184.122]) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A7F8FA0A0; Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:27:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ericabrahamsen.net; s=mail; t=1627057627; bh=poOQ+XPJMDho+212KgvSUJ5x9xLnXboCoGnF3pL1z9Q=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=uSjVg5oV8yVJtMop3IfUSPnt2tBT3YzY2yx0d6KUOQC4hiTUvt5SPmS2FvFJ18NdZ MpMXHFg8S/9HIlyclwUNLko4L7bD+udpQVjz6YtbRVBlcNOrR4jar7gZU14ipwLjOv 4jM6U7WiP/9QoeABNDacczgwoylXC6SoIjdprfeQ= From: Eric Abrahamsen To: John Covici Cc: Pankaj Jangid , ding@gnus.org Subject: Re: problem using gnus References: Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:27:05 -0700 In-Reply-To: (John Covici's message of "Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:56:28 -0400") Message-ID: <87im118086.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain List-ID: Precedence: bulk John Covici 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?