Forwarding to the developer newsgroups.

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:06:46 -0500, Rick Merrill wrote:
> The manager of eternal-september news reports seeing
> SeaMonkey trying to post before authenticated.
> 
> ==========
> 
> OK, here' what happened:
> 
> Feb  9 09:56:42 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy (24.63.xx.yy) 
> connect
> Feb  9 09:56:42 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy post failed You 
> are not allowed to post to alt.online-service.comcast
> 
> Tried to post before you authenticated
> 
> Feb  9 09:57:02 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: filter: 24.63.xx.yy 
> Connecting with cn=rickmerrill
> Feb  9 09:57:02 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: filter: 24.63.xx.yy User 
> rickmerrill signed in
> 
> Now you authenticated (please note that this is still the same 
> connection [11306])
> 
> Feb  9 09:57:02 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy user rickmerrill
> Feb  9 09:57:02 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy user rickmerrill
> Feb  9 09:57:06 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy group 
> alt.online-service.comcast 0
> Feb  9 09:57:06 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy group 
> 24hoursupport.helpdesk 0
> Feb  9 09:57:06 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy group 
> alt.support.cancer.prostate 0
> Feb  9 09:57:07 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy group 
> alt.support.prostate.prostatitis 0
> Feb  9 09:57:07 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy group 
> sci.med.prostate.bph 0
> Feb  9 09:57:08 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy group alt.cable-tv 0
> Feb  9 09:57:08 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy group 
> alt.comp.google 0
> Feb  9 09:57:08 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy group 
> comp.internet.services.google 0
> Feb  9 09:57:09 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy group 
> alt.fan.states.massachusetts 0
> Feb  9 09:57:12 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: filter: 
> feeder.eternal-september.org; posting-host="24.63.xx.yy"; 
> logging-data="11306"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@eternal-september.org"; 
>      posting-account="rickmerrill"
> Feb  9 09:57:12 188.40.43.213 nnrpd[11306]: 24.63.xx.yy post ok 
> <hkr815$b1...@news.eternal-september.org>
> 
> and now you are able to post, too.
> 
> This definitely looks like a problem with your newsreader, as it starts 
> a connection without authenticating,
> tries to post and gets an error and then properly authenticates, all on 
> the same connection. Also, please note
> that it keeps the connection open for 20 seconds despite the error and 
> then makes up its mind to use
> authentication. As I said, these Thundermonkeys are really weird.
> 
> hth

Phil

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