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Ander GM

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Nov 17, 2023, 5:16:52 AM11/17/23
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How can I login with NCSA Mosaic? The forked one in Github.

Neither ~/.netrc nor ~/.authinfo work.

And strace shows no info on opened files related to auth or news.

Marco Moock

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Nov 17, 2023, 5:24:28 AM11/17/23
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Am 17.11.2023 um 10:16:50 Uhr schrieb Ander GM:

> How can I login with NCSA Mosaic? The forked one in Github.

Does it support NNTP?
I couldn't find anything about NNTP support in it.

Don Vito Martinelli

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Nov 17, 2023, 5:31:15 AM11/17/23
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I take it you are trying with http://reader80.eternal-september.org
It does not work for me either ("Loading..."), not that I'd ever tried
that before.

yeti

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Nov 17, 2023, 7:36:06 AM11/17/23
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Don Vito Martinelli <hyperspac...@vogon.gov.invalid> writes:

> I take it you are trying with http://reader80.eternal-september.org
> It does not work for me either ("Loading..."), not that I'd ever tried
> that before.

Maybe because it "speaks" NNTP there?

------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ printf '%s\r\n' quit . | nc reader80.eternal-september.org 119
200 news.eternal-september.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.8.0 (20230917 snapshot) ready (posting ok)
205 Bye!
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| The USoA are switching to the binary number system because |
| having more than 1+1 distinct digits is far too woke. |
|+ #MABA + #makeAmericaBinaryAgain + #USA + #USoA + #woke + #MABA + #ma|

yeti

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Nov 17, 2023, 7:38:04 AM11/17/23
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Don Vito Martinelli <hyperspac...@vogon.gov.invalid> writes:

> I take it you are trying with http://reader80.eternal-september.org
> It does not work for me either ("Loading..."), not that I'd ever tried
> that before.

Maybe because it "speaks" NNTP there?

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$ printf '%s\r\n' quit . | nc reader80.eternal-september.org 80

Ray Banana

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Nov 17, 2023, 8:52:34 AM11/17/23
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Thus spake yeti <ye...@tilde.institute>

> Don Vito Martinelli <hyperspac...@vogon.gov.invalid> writes:

>> I take it you are trying with http://reader80.eternal-september.org
>> It does not work for me either ("Loading..."), not that I'd ever tried
>> that before.

> Maybe because it "speaks" NNTP there?

It does, indeed. You would need to configure your newsreader to use port
80 instead of 119. And, by the way, the same applies to port 443 on
raeder443.eternal-september.org using NNTPS rather than HTTPS.

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