From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30265 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus reads megabytes from NNTP on startup? Date: 23 Apr 2000 17:49:15 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200004231305.PAA02654@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166826 7545 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:20:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162D8D051E for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:49:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAB12335; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:49:36 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:49:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA07894 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:48:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 64FCAD051E for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:49:16 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 3559 invoked by uid 50); 24 Apr 2000 00:49:15 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Markus Leypold's message of "Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:05:56 +0200 (CEST)" Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30265 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30265 Markus Leypold 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)