From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: problem using gnus
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:45:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3czr96ksp.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im118086.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
The select method is just '(gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.grc.com")
On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:27:05 -0400,
Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
> 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?
>
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici wb2una
covici@ccs.covici.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-23 16:46 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 [this message]
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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