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"Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> Since the "macdef" comes after "machine news.foobar.com", it only applies to
> that host and not to any other. That's completely consistent with the way FTP
> parses the ~/.netrc file and uses the "init" macro (and any others you define
> for a given host).

Ok.

> In other words, the macros are defined on a per-host
> basis. To answer your question specifically, here is how you do it:
> 
> -~/.authinfo------
> machine news.foobar.com login baz password xyzzy
> macdef nntp_init
> force authinfo
> 

This is certainly workable, and would provide compatibility with
.netrc files.  But it is rather obscure.

Is compatibility with .netrc files all that important?  How about if
we just add a "force" token?

machine news.foobar.com login baz password xyzzy force yes

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen