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Date:	Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:32:30 PDT7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: News Server Question, etc.

In <20050814211141.41360.qmail@web81404.mail.yahoo.com>, on 08/14/05
at 02:11 PM, J R FOX said:

>--- Steven Levine wrote:

>> You are using the wrong tools to test the server.
>> Try

>> telnet -p 119 news.la.sbcglobal.net
>>
>> and you will see the server is up and responding
>> sufficiently to say hi.
>>
>> Then issue the commands
>>
>> AUTHINFO USER username
>> AUTHINFO PASS password
>>
This may not be at all related to the problem, but when I recently had
trouble connecting to SBC, I found out that they have changed their logon
procedure.

It used to be that username and password were sufficient. NOW they require
the domain name in addition to the user name (in my case I had to add
"@pacbell.net" to the username in order to connect.

Sandy

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