Ben Z wrote: > R.V. Gronoff said the following on 9/22/2002 2:35 PM: > >> Hi, >> >> I've subscribed to a news server, but when I click on some newsgroups >> a window pops up asking me my login and password again and again. >> Why does it have to be so shitty ? I entered my log and pwd when I >> dlded the ngs list ! This is definitely a bug that should be patched >> in the near future - it's actually the only annoyance that makes me >> regret Outlook Express ! >> > > I had a similar experience. It seemed that I was being asked to reenter > userid and password over and over. A check of the password manager > showed an individual entry for many of the newsgroups that I subscribed > to. Once I had entered the id/password combination for each newsgroup > the requests stopped. In the last two weeks no new requests. > > Seems the password manager needs an entry for each newsgroup instead of > a single pair for the entire new server. > > --Ben > That is correct, and while it is probably NOT the optimal approach, it does allow a consistent process, and is only a problem during initial setup of a newsgroup. As long as the user remembers to check the box to tell NS/Moz to remember the id/password. There are much more significant things to be fixed.
-- Ron Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
