Re: Help with NNTP on new "virtual ISP"

From: Jerry McBride (mcbrides@erols.com)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 14:03:27 -0400

>I use Yarn 0.92 for OS/2, and VSoup 1.2.8 to retrieve news. I have
>recently opened an account at a "virtual ISP." I'm not quite sure what
>they think they actually mean by that, but part of it is that my userid
>contain the ISP name, i.e. "quilty@spire.com". The whole thing is my
>login name... and also my account name for NNTP authentication.
>
>This makes it REALLY hard to retrieve news. Issuing the command:
>
> vsoup.exe -m nntp://quilty:MYPASSWORD@news.spire.com
>
>Gets my an authentication failure (because 'quilty' is not my whole
>username). OTOH, using:
>
> vsoup.exe -m nntp://quilty@spire.com:MYPASSWORD@news.spire.com
>
>also does not work, because the first '@' convinced VSOUP to start
>looking for the news host.
>

On an OS/2 server of mine, I use the following to grab new messages off a local
nntp server. Running VSOUP 1.28:

vsoup -i -m nntp://USERID:PASSWORD@news.erols.com

Your problem, using the "@" in the user name is... unfortunate. It would appear
that unless someone is willing to "patch" vsoup to ignore the "@" character in
the user ID or fix the isp's news server... you are SOL.

Sorry. Do you run soup to feed yarn? On which platform are you running on? Off
hand, I would suspect MOST all newsclients to fail using the above ISP
validation requirements.

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