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From: Markus Korber <korbse@ymail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:47:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwoanrw4.fsf@ws-sw06.ottronic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130822T000702-930@post.gmane.org>

Thus spake Harry:

> Running Debian 'testing'
> Emacs-24 - gnus (1wk since last git pull), so magnus.
> 
> [...]
> 
> It didn't work, but this morning I'm suddenly being hit with authentication
> prompts from gmane server 'news.gmane.org'  Asking me for my User name.
> when of course I don't have one and should not need one.
>
> Just ignoring the message and pressing <enter> seems to launch gnus into a
> massive read of all my `read' messages which would number thousands and
> thousands.

Same here with Ubuntu 12.04, Emacs 23.3.1 and No Gnus v0.11.  However
only for one subscribed group (gmane.comp.hardware.arm.lpc2100) and not
for others (e.g. gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.general).  Any ideas?

Regards,
Markus Korber

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-22  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-21 22:07 Harry
2013-08-22  6:47 ` Markus Korber [this message]
2013-08-23 12:42   ` Harry Putnam
2013-08-23 18:29     ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2013-08-23 19:24       ` Peter Jones
2013-08-23 19:50         ` Harry Putnam
     [not found]       ` <mailman.658.1377285884.10748.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2013-08-24 15:35         ` Harry Putnam

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