From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Gnus reads megabytes from NNTP on startup?
Date: 23 Apr 2000 17:49:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylhfcs8gs4.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Markus Leypold's message of "Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:05:56 +0200 (CEST)"
Markus Leypold <leypold@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> * The news server (for some obscure reason) had been set up in a way
> to refuse *some* commands with '480 Authentication required for
> command'. I could say 'help' but not 'list active' to the server
> (tried it with telnet).
This is, incidentally, normal, at least in my experience for
password-required news servers. It can even go farther than that,
allowing you to read some newsgroups but require authentication to read
other ones or to post.
News readers really have to be prepared to handle 480 responses at almost
any point in the NNTP dialog.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-24 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-06 14:17 Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-04-20 0:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-21 9:57 ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
2000-04-21 11:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-23 13:05 ` Markus Leypold
2000-04-23 19:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-04-24 0:49 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2000-04-25 8:23 ` Markus Leypold
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