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Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> I've tried the current version (0.27) that uses ~/.netrc in
> nntp-send-authinfo, and we need a syntax for excluding machines from
> password sending.  Either we don't send authinfo to machines not found
> in the ~/.netrc or ~/.authinforc (or whatever) file or we put in
> machine names without any password or user name.

The new approach is to only send authinfo when challenged.  If you
want to force sending authinfo for some servers, you should put the
authinfo function into the server-opened hook for those servers. 

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