Subject: Re: news with password

From: "Mike Brudenell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:00:40 +0000

--On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 5:10 pm +0100 "Pere Camps" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 	I'd like to know if Pine is able to post and/or read newsgroups
> that need a user and password login.

Both Pine and PC-Pine versions 3.95 and later can do so.
(I think it was introduced in 3.93 or 3.94, but was a bit broken back then.)

> 	If so, what's the way to do it?

Just use it... Pine/PC-Pine will prompt you for a username and password
if/when it needs one.

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From: Pere Camps <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 22:25:28 +0100 (CET)

Mike,

> (I think it was introduced in 3.93 or 3.94, but was a bit broken back then.)

	Good to know. :)

> Just use it... Pine/PC-Pine will prompt you for a username and password

	Well, I'm trying to post to a group that needs login/password, but
I'm getting the following error message:

[Error posting message: 441 No valid newsgroups in "st.punts"]

	For reading, pine works ok as I can read the articles with no
problems. The newsserver definition in my .pinerc is:

News-collections=News-BBS *{bbs.upc.es/nntp}[]

	The server works correctly as I can post (with a login/password)
with Netscape's Collabra 4.04 for Linux.

	FYI, the news server is Netscape's. Don't know which version.

	Thanks for your help.
	
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