[HECnet] NEWSRDR or other ...

At 8:29 PM -0500 11/12/08, Fred wrote: Good evening: I fetched NEWSRDR off of one of the Freeware distribution sites, and after configuring things, settings up logicals, etc ... an attempt to run NEWSRDR results in: %NEWS-I-UPDATING, locating unread articles; please wait... %NEWS-E-UNEXPRSP, unexpected response from server: "480 Authentication Required" Does anyone have experience with setting up NEWSRDR to authenticate to my ISP's mail server, or is there a client out there for OpenVMS that supports this? This error message suggests that NEWSRDR does not. I think you want to point it at your ISP's news server. :-) ISTR trying NEWSRDR about 10 years ago, but at that point my ISP didn't require a login for the news server (i.e. this was before they outsourced it). No clue on if it supports authentication or not. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |