Re: why error 502?????????

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1 total messages Started by Craig W. Borysowich Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:00

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Author: Craig W. Borysowich
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:00

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At 14:45 29/08/95 -0600, Richard Uijen wrote:
>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?
>

error 502 is generally an unauthorized access error.  Most news servers have
user ID and password enabled on them.. Usually not the password though.  You
just need a registered user ID.

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