From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: "Adam Sjøgren" <asjo@koldfront.dk>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: problem using gnus
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:27:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3a6md6iue.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bl6tvupp.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk>
It seems after a bit if you stay on the server it says Posting OK, at
least I saw that when I did a telnet like you did to make sure.
On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:52:18 -0400,
Adam Sjøgren wrote:
>
> John writes:
>
> > The select method is just '(gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.grc.com")
>
> Maybe Gnus is prompting for a username because that server doesn't allow
> posting?
>
> $ telnet news.grc.com nntp
> Trying 4.79.142.203...
> Connected to news.grc.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 200 news.grc.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.3 ready (no posting)
> MODE READER
> 200 news.grc.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.3 ready (no posting)
> GROUP grc.test
> 211 114 128140 128270 grc.test
> POST
> 480 Posting not allowed
>
> Maybe Gnus tries to auth because that might open up for posting? (Just
> guessing!)
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adam
>
> --
> "Check my heart and respiration Adam Sjøgren
> I feel I look a little pale asjo@koldfront.dk
> I just missed another station
> I'm stepping off the carousel"
>
>
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
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John Covici wb2una
covici@ccs.covici.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-23 17:28 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
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 [this message]
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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