Subject: tin incorrectly reports posting is not allowed Package: tin Version: 1:1.9.4-1 Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line *** After authenticating to giganews, tin reports: *** Posting not allowed *** Followup and Write then refuse to allow posting. If I allow the connection to time out and then enter a group, tin reconnects, and is subsequently willing to post. Looking at network traces, gn lists these capabilities: VERSION 2 READER POST LIST OVERVIEW.FMT ACTIVE ACTIVE.TIMES NEWSGROUPS XFEATURE 1 XFEATURE-COMPRESS GZIP TERMINATOR XFEATURE-METADATA BYTES XFEATURES 1 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.13 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=es_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tin depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.21 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcanlock2 2b-5 library for creating and verifying ii libidn11 1.12-1 GNU Libidn library, implementation ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090404-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpcre3 7.8-2+b1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libuu0 0.5.20-3.1 Library for decoding/encoding seve Versions of packages tin recommends: ii sendmail-bin [mail-transport- 8.14.2-5 powerful, efficient, and scalable -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org