From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1059 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haines Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: newuser, help Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 16:12:44 GMT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com Message-ID: References: <3D6FED17.6040201@yahoo.com.cn> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667891 9563 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:38:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:38:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:34 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!216.65.160.204.MISMATCH!smallfeed.triton.net!triton.net!newsfeeder.triton.net!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr10.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.252.168.85 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr10.news.prodigy.com 1031328764 ST000 64.252.168.85 (Fri, 06 Sep 2002 12:12:44 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 12:12:44 EDT X-UserInfo1: T[OCB_OGZZSOR^ARO[GLMALD\CQDRRDKFA]T]_QHEQR@UWUC_FUC@E_[BT\\YQKIPVBMJBVMSNXTOLGBUFTI^\XGJVTAHUPH[XYPB\_BMDS@A@@\@KC@IPWCT\EKZHBLJTY_JAFMXY^WGG[RHL^U^AK_BK[BWUKH@A_AQFOAGCAVA]\F[\APMQPF_FWEA\JN Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1199 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1199 Tue Jan 17 17:28:34 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1059 Archived-At: I'm also a newcomer, but discovered more or less by accident that to get started I also needed to create a file: ~/.authinfo with the following content in order to access the news server (which happens to be news.snet.sbcglobal.net): machine news.snet.sbcglobal.net login uid password password machine localhost login news password snet Here I've used the word "password" for my password, and "uid" for my user ID assigned by my ISP. While I suspect the second line here is flawed, at least it works. Any lurker willing to explain the syntax of the second line? -- Haines Brown brownh@hartford-hwp.com kb1grm@arrl.net www.hartford-hwp.com