You may wish to un-set this setting for a brief period of time.
(a few days ... a week?)
Other people that have been using newsreaders will not be
able to read this explanation or the solution unless they think
of going to eGroups.com.
Again, a change of this nature should only be made after
an announcement that it is coming so people have a chance
to adapt.
--
-Richard M. Hartman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
Ryan Robertson wrote in message <19555@palm-dev-forum>...
>
>Richard and everyone else,
>
>> Was anybody else taken by surprise when the news.palmos.com
>> server started refusing access yesterday? In the morning it was
>> just fine, but in the afternoon I started getting this error:
>>
>> Server Response:
>> 480 This group is only available to members. Please enter your email
>> address and password into your News Browser.
>>
>> when you make a change like this, NOTIFY people ahead of time !!!!
>
>That was my bad. There is a setting in the server manager that restricts
>access to guests, however the setting states that it only affects the web
>interface (which we clearly don't have). I wasn't aware that it also
>affected the newsgroup interface.
>
>Note that this only affects those of you who browse the forum's using a
>newsgroup reader.
>
>To configure your newsgroup reader, enter your email address in the
"account
>name" field and the password you used when you subscribed in the "password"
>field. If you don't remember setting a password, you can send the
following
>command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to add a password to your dev forums
>account:
>
> set <list-name> pw=<password>
>
>If you've forgotten your password, you can either unsubscribe and
>re-subscribe, or send me email and I'll reset it.
>
>I'm terribly sorry about the inconvenience. I would have posted a message
>to the forums first if I thought the change would have affected newsgroup
>access.
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>Ryan Robertson
>Senior Software Engineer
>
>
>
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