why error 502?????????

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Author: Richard Uijen
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:00

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Hello to all,

I apologize if my question has been asked before and if there would be a
simple solution to my problem which I overlooked. I subscribed to the list
for this.

My problem is: when I use my netnews reader (I have used minuet16 and WinVN)
to make contact to any netnews server (closest to me is netnews.uci.kun.nl
119, but I have tried several others) I get an error message all the time:
ERROR 502: server can't talk with you. Goodbye.
Or even more bluntly:
502: you have no permission to talk. Goodbye.


Does anyone have an idea what may cause this?


Some possibilities that I have eliminated are:
-server problem: I have the same problem with ANY news server, I can't even
get a group list.
-software problem: I have tried two different newsreaders and both led to the
same ERROR 502.
-server connection: While testing the server (using Minuet16) the response is
an 'excellent connection' (540 msec)

I use Windows, but can switch to DOS too. Other communication programs work
perfectly, like Telnet, FTP, BanMail, Mosaic, HGopher or Ping.
The network I'm on is a BanyanVines one.

Any help (or even an explanation) would be greatly appreciated!!!

Richard Uijen in Nijmegen, the Netherlands

R.Uijen@BW.KUN.NL

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