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  - hi; in dipspc article, <1202121596snz@nospam.demon.co.uk>,
              pete@nospam.demon.co.uk confided:
>     v$af$ppint@i-m-t.demon.co.uk "ppint. at pplay" writes:
>>            pete@nospam.demon.co.uk explained:
>[..]
>>>I have no probs with the standard syntax -- I was wondering more 
>>>about authentication.  Looking through the GremNOS source (which 
>>>I suppose I should have done before) it seems like the addserver 
>>>command ought to be something like:
>>>
>>>    nntp addserver <$foo> <interval> user <username> <password>
>>>
>>>(or abbreviated as required). 
>> 
>>	- ah; might you care to report back upon the efficacy of
>>	this, should "nin" prove to require authentication every
>>	time you ask it for newnews?
[] 
>
>I think I can now confirm that authentication *is* required for 
>each connection (and the syntax above seems to do the trick). 
>Looking at the dialogue with "nn tr 7" with the auth params 
>missing reveals that to be the case, anyway.  And whilst not too 
>secure, it's no big deal having the req'd info sitting there in 
>autoexec.net.

	- *nods*  - thanks; in case i, or any other dos-er needs
	the format for future use.
>
>>>That is indeed Plan A; I once made the mistake of running DIS
>>>to "Maintain newsgroups"
>>	- "woops!"
[] 
>>>It's the only time I ever run DIS, as when running addgroup/
>>>rmgroup etc. manually I always forget to edit at least one of
>>>the important files :-(
>> 
>>	- *g*  - i found it easier to save my modified nntp.dat,
>>	under a sufficiently differentiated name, run DIS, replace
>>	the old demon.news bloc in the saved file with that from
>>	the new nntp.dat, and then over-write this.
>
>I suspect I will embrace such a plan if/when the time comes to 
>change/suspend newsgroups and the like (which happens infrequently 
>and probably explains why I forget which files need amending).

	- *nods*  - i found it worthwhile keeping an extra copy
	of my multi-newsserver bloc nntp.dat (as nntp.sav), in
	case i so far forgot myself and where i was, in what i
	was doing, as to over-write nntp.dat twice with just the
	demon data...
>
>>	- love, a ppint. happy to have even half a shop open again
[]
>
>Good to hear that you're half-back in business!
>
	- many thanks; the landlord's still not signed off on
	his insurers' contractors' sub-contractors' work as
	having been completed to his satisfaction - or, indeed,
	as having been completed. which, to be fair, it has not
	been: this is a pain in more ways than i can list, and
	remain brief: but it includes not being able to get the
	new (three months old, now) carpet down, nor to finish
	re-building the counters, nor to re-build the standing
	shelving, nor to re-organising the stock ordered for
	the start of the new academic year and the christmas
	season, which remains largely unsold..   ..so far, at
	any rate.

	- love, ppint.
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