On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:01:11 +0100, Chris Young wrote:
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> On Monday 31-Jul-00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> > Are you trying to connect to free servers or pay servers? Free
> > servers usually don't require authentication. Pay servers won't
> > accept authentication unless you're a paying customer and in their
> > user list. Of course, the servers could be down (or max'd out) at the
> > time you tried to connect.
>
> One is an ISP server, news.ic24.net, and on further investigation did indeed
> appear to be dead (wouldn't work in AWeb either). The other one is a
> public (free) server which requires authentication in order to post. I can
> read ok, but can't post. This one works with no problems in AWeb. It may
> just be that the authentication for this server is slightly different from
> others, and is confusing MD2? I've reported it as a bug now anyway, so
> they can have a play with it and see what the problem is.
Have you contacted the public server's tech support directly? It
could be that authentication can ONLY be through their web server.
That's why AWeb works and MDII doesn't: The news server is not setup
to do it, pure and simple.
--
Patrick Bartek
NoLife Polymath Group
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