OK , I guess I deserved the RTFM, but thanks for the info. I
did read the manual once upon a time. I never had a problem
with news before, and with the patch being a separate hand
created file rather than part of the set up menu, I forgot all
about it.
Mike
On 22 Mar 00, at 18:15, Howard Eisenberger wrote:
> Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Were you able to access the news server? I got an
> > "authentication required" and a " What?" and dropped from
> > the server. Nettamer 1.08 doesn't seem to have a place for a
> > news password. Also the server identifies as a NNRP server
> > instead of NNTP.
>
> RTFM. :-)
>
> - ---- nettamer.doc -----
>
> ***USENET SETUP***
>
> A NOTE ABOUT USENET PASSWORDS:
> A very few usenet readers require a username and password. The program now
> looks for this and supplies your email address and password, if it is
> questioned. If you need to give information OTHER than that, the program
> also looks for a file called USENET.NFO. Using a text editor type in on a
> single line your user name for this reader a Bar character (|) and your
> password for the reader. Place this file in the message directory!
>
> - -----------------------
>
> I don't use nettamer myself, but news.freewwweb.com works for me
> with both uka_ppp and Yan (Ka9q) using "authinfo". Uka_ppp is pretty
> picky about the type of nntpserver it can handle. NNRP (INN) is one
> that it likes.
>
> > Mail sending seems to work as does web browsing I'm not
> > sure about pop3 yet.
>
> As far as I can tell, freewwweb provides a standard PPP connection.
> Everything I have tried has worked. Mail and news can be slow since
> the servers are not local.
>
> Howard Eisenberger
> Ottawa
>
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