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vernoncompton@myself.com (Vernon Compton) writes:

> I am wanting to start using Gnus, and am looking for help on writing
> my .authinfo file. If my nntpserver is news.cis.dfn.de, username
> "noneof", password "yourbusiness" how should the .authinfo file look?

machine news.cis.dfn.de login noneof password yourbusiness

> And, is there any way to obscure the password?

Not that I'm aware of.