L.V.Gandhi rearranged electrons thusly:
> I did things as said for slrnpull. I have two ISPs. ETH and vsnl. I was
> trying With vsnl news server. ETH connection could not initialise
> server of vsnl. I got the following msg.
Correct. VSNL has set up filters so that only its users can access its NNTP server
> 02/21/2001 19:54:24 Connecting to host news.vsnl.net.in ...
> 02/21/2001 19:54:29 ***Failed to initialize server
> 02/21/2001 19:54:29 ***Reason: 502 You have no permission to talk.
> 02/21/2001 19:53:23 ***Reason: 502 Authentication error
> 02/21/2001 19:53:23 ***Failed to initialize server
> 02/21/2001 19:53:23 ***Reason: 502 Authentication error
In vsnl, put this line in .slrnrc ...
% You define these things with "nnrpaccess".
% nnrpaccess hostname username password
nnrpaccess news.vsnl.net.in lvgandhi your-vsnl-password
-s
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