From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16484 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:07:12 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377122867 18038 80.91.229.3 (21 Aug 2013 22:07:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:07:47 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 22 00:07:50 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VCGZA-0005kx-Pn for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:07:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56912 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCGZA-00087k-2A for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34551) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCGZ1-00087Z-4z for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCGYt-0006Mk-4L for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:38706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VCGYs-0006MX-UD for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VCGYr-0005HC-Om for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:07:30 +0200 Original-Received: from z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com ([65.50.57.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:07:29 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by z65-50-57-227.ips.direcpath.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:07:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 65.50.57.227 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16484 Archived-At: Running Debian 'testing' Emacs-24 - gnus (1wk since last git pull), so magnus. I may have posted to the wrong place about this on gmane.discuss. Here is probably more likely to get results. Yesterday I was piddling around trying to make gnus download some specfic nntp messages from a few wks ago. I once used the agent extensively but over the yrs have migrated away from that, from having a huge inventory of messages on local disk, although it can be very usefull at times. Gmane has made it unnecessary (Thank you Lars, Thank you gmane and gnus developers) Anyway, cutting to the chase... I've forgotten virtually ALL I knew about using the agent... just tried marking with '%' and trying `J j' or `J s' to get them. 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 seems to launch gnus into a massive read of all my `read' messages which would number thousands and thousands. In the nntp buffer I see a massive list of messages listed out by number.... I killed after a few minutes. Can anyone help me track this down?