chicagofan sent the following on Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:48:18 -0500: > Jim G. wrote: > > chicagofan sent the following on Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:38:02 -0500: > >> Lee wrote: > >>> anyone else having problems signing in to their newsgroups. I am with > >>> USENET and sometimes I can log in automatically and then turn around > >>> and have to log in manually and sometimes that does not work for the > >>> first 4 or 6 times. Could it be something with SM I have checked with > >>> USENET and they have not indicated any problem and to my knowledge > >>> nothing has changed over the last 3 days. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Lee > >> Who provides your newsgroup service? Many of them do maintenance on the > >> weekends, which can create access problems. > >> > >> I use eternal-september and I'm not having any problems, but I don't > >> have to "log in". > > Actually, you do. E-S requires a username and password. I'm guessing > > that you provided that information to SeaMonkey at one point and have > > just forgotten about it since. > > > I assumed [perhaps wrongly] that the OP was getting the box to log in > with password each time he opened newsgroups, not when he originally set > up his account. :)
Fair enough. I just didn't want the OP to think that s/he could bypass the problem by simply switching to E-S. -- Jim G. [Insert your favorite clever tagline here.] _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
