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Abhijit Rao <quasiabhi@yahoo.com> writes:

> 	I am using Emacs 21.  I am trying to set up emacs-gnus to read
> my news.  My news servers requires a login and password.  How do I
> send that?

Create a file ~/.authinfo which contains a line like this

machine 127.0.0.1 login Abhijit password secret

> I just want to subscribe to gnu.emacs.gnus, gnu.emacs.help
> & comp.lang.lisp - can I do that directly or do I have to download all
> possible groups and then select?

I think the latter.

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