RobertMacy wrote:
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 08:13:23 -0700, philo wrote:

...snip...
Some news groups reject aioe to prevent spam I suppose.
I mainly use eternal-september

This was a one time series, or happens other times, may not have
noticed, because I don't read a LOT of these postings

I'm registered at eternal-september and received this response via e-t,
However, I had to go to Aioe, because could never resply, or post,
though e-t. says something about may not be set up correctly, Well, duh!
So exactly WHAT needs set up, doesn't elaborate.

In your newsreader program, you need to select "Always request authentication".
Such a tick box can be seen in the preferences here. It causes the
client to volunteer your username and password for that account.

http://www.netfaqs.com/macintosh/Mai...dit/Edit02.png

The process with news servers is a bit screwy. You would think
the server would just prompt for a username and password. But
instead, the client offers the info. And so you have to
set up the client program, to send in your details. With E-S
you want it enabled, with AIOE it should be disabled.

And E-S makes this harder, by supported both unauthenticated
as well as authenticated operation.

If you connect to E-S without using the username and password,
a grand total of 12 newsgroups are available. These are the
eternal-september support groups. This provides a way for new
users, to request help. That is why there are only the
dozen or so groups in the list. They're help groups of some sort.

If you have selected the "Always request authentication" option,
then on login there will be thousands of newsgroups to read or
post to. When you fetch the newsgroup list, it'll be a lot larger.

Paul