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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> If the value is in a Lisp variable, they can change it with customize,
> and get online help.  That should be easier for most people than
> learning the ".netrc" format from a man page (I for one don't know the
> ".netrc" format).

Uhm...  Ok.  If `nntp-authinforc-file' is an alist, it can be used.
The format should be

 '(("machine.name" (token . value) (token . value) ...)
   ...)

TOKEN can be "login" and "password".

I'm not sure how to express this in customeze.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen