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 In article <825189400snz@xciv.org>
  Paul Civati <paul@xciv.org> said:-

>In article <825239088_OASIS_@husbands.demon.co.uk>
>           Simon@husbands.demon.co.uk "Simon Husbands" writes:
>
>> I have been posting about my friend in Canada who is trying to get his Oasis/Nos> set up. Here are his problems.
>> 
>> 1) he can receive news but not send it. If he tries he get the 501 message then
>> a 480, saying transfer denied.
>>  
>> What I see across my screen is this:
>> 
>> >Closing news session
>> >Trying to connect to news server 199.175.168.4
>> >Connected to news server
>> >501 newsgroup
>> >480 Transfer permission denied
>
>The news software is use at that site obviously hasn't implemented very
>informative error messages.  You might want to check RFC977 which might give
>you a better clue (from those two codes) as to what exactly the error is.

I can't be 100% certain but very nearly so ...

Nos appears to send the newsgroup twice. The first time it is correct, 
the second time it is blank. If the RFC is strictly implemented the 
article should still be accepted because the last valid setting should 
remain in effect.

You are not likely to get your provider to change this unless a lot of 
PC users have the same problem but there is a version of Nos which 
does work. Unfortunately I do not know which one this is, so you'll 
have to post something asking for the correct Nos version :-(


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk