My news server requires authentication (username/password, not SSL or 
any variant).  There seems to be no place in the properties dialog to 
enter username/password (which is where I would expect to find it).

With 0.9.7, when connecting to the server (news.verio.net), it would pop 
up a username dialog and then a password dialog, with a "Remember this 
username?" checkbox (which didn't seem to work -- it would ask me again 
pretty much every time).

With 0.9.8, it doesn't work at all.  It never prompts me for a username 
or a password.  It simply says "Connection was refused by server."

I know it's not the server's problem, as I have another newsreading 
program that can connect to the server just fine.  (Of course, that 
program -- NewsBin -- has an explicit checkbox letting me *tell* it that 
NNTP authentication is required, and an explicit username/password field 
letting me set my username/pwd once and for all....)

What's the deal with 0.9.8's brokenness?
Cheers,
Rob


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