From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net!.POSTED.alpha.home.tnetconsulting.net!not-for-mail From: Grant Taylor Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Leaving damaged group Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 03:08:05 -0600 Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: References: <1a544bf3-db3c-4dc4-ba26-d2e9cf1f33e1n@googlegroups.com> <87a6xtc7oi.fsf@nightsong.com> <160d50a7-81b1-4af4-ab0b-bbc399801846n@googlegroups.com> <776be5b3-c9fa-4829-b0f6-f838704f1396n@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 09:08:28 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net; posting-host="alpha.home.tnetconsulting.net:198.18.18.251"; logging-data="4401"; mail-complaints-to="newsmaster@tnetconsulting.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:60212 List-Id: On 9/18/20 10:41 PM, Roger Mc wrote: > I've installed Thunderbird but can't find out how to access this > group through Thunderbird's newsgroup reader. I believe that Eternal-September puts people in a restricted mode by default. I think that you need to tell Thunderbird to always authenticate to be able to access more than just eternal-september.* groups. > Any assistance gratefully appreciated. Try the following: Edit -> Account Settings -> Eternal-September -> Server Settings -> Always request authentication when connecting to this server. -- Grant. . . . unix || die