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

> Hmmmmm. Good point. I haven't had a chance to upgrade to the latest Quassia
> yet, so forgive the question, but does the netrc parsing code you snarfed
> from ange-ftp parse the macdefs (marco definitions)?

Nope.

> If not, maybe it could be modified to do so.

Yup.  

> So instead of semantically overloading the username as
> you suggested, we could define a macro which could be used as a flag to
> determine whether to force authinfo or not. For example,
> 
> machine news.foobar.com login baz password xyzzy
> macdef nntp_init
> force authinfo

Well, how would the user specify that authinfo should be forced onto
server news.foobar.com and not news.barfoo.com?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen