Hi all

Since the move from Outlook Express to Thunderbird, the latter has proved a fairly reliable means of accessing this and other similar groups.
After posting about barometer repairs successfully last week, Thunderbird has stopped displaying message content in the reading pane (just the headers) and is requesting username and password details instead.

Looking at the setup of the news account there are no fields relating to password and no username as such (only the name displayed when posting messages).

Anyone know what's going on here? The ISP is Karoo in Hull - server is news.karoo.co.uk.

Posted via the dreaded Google groups.

Thanks

Phil

well there has to be some password surely? Tis eternal september account
has to be logged into.
Brian

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Hi all

Since the move from Outlook Express to Thunderbird, the latter has proved
a fairly reliable means of accessing this and other similar groups.
After posting about barometer repairs successfully last week, Thunderbird
has stopped displaying message content in the reading pane (just the
headers) and is requesting username and password details instead.

Looking at the setup of the news account there are no fields relating to
password and no username as such (only the name displayed when posting
messages).

Anyone know what's going on here? The ISP is Karoo in Hull - server is
news.karoo.co.uk.

Posted via the dreaded Google groups.

Thanks

Phil

On 01/07/2013 19:54, Brian Gaff wrote:

well there has to be some password surely?

Not usually if the news server is "bundled" with your ISP service, they
normally authenticate based on the IP address you are using belonging to
their IP address block.

Tis eternal september account
has to be logged into.

Yup, external accounts will need authentication.


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On 01/07/2013 16:31, wrote:
Hi all

Since the move from Outlook Express to Thunderbird, the latter has
proved a fairly reliable means of accessing this and other similar
groups. After posting about barometer repairs successfully last week,
Thunderbird has stopped displaying message content in the reading
pane (just the headers) and is requesting username and password
details instead.

Looking at the setup of the news account there are no fields relating
to password and no username as such (only the name displayed when
posting messages).

Normally if it detects that it needs authentication it will prompt for
credentials when it tries to access the server. Sometimes it might do
that in error if the news server does not respond for other reasons. If
it gives the option to "reenter password" then it might be worth trying
that and entering a blank password.

Are you sure you are accessing the system via Karoo? For example
attempting to connect via a 3G mobile connection or via a load balancing
router with several ISP connections can cause problems since the route
in will not be the expected one/

Anyone know what's going on here? The ISP is Karoo in Hull - server
is news.karoo.co.uk.

According to

http://www.karoo-user-group.co.uk/re...ws_service.php

they subcontract to giganews (as do many ISPs these days).

I notice that if they are going slow and I hit N a few times in
succession to skip to the next post, I can in effect end up stacking
several NNTP requests in parallel. This does cause the authentication
box to pop up, since giganews seem to use it as a way of rejecting too
many parallel connections from the same host.


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Thanks to all respondents.

KC have stopped their news service as of yesterday.
Please see follow up post on News Server Recommendations.

Phil

On 02/07/2013 09:38, Phil Heads wrote:
Thanks to all respondents.

KC have stopped their news service as of yesterday.
Please see follow up post on News Server Recommendations.

That's interesting - my home account is Eclipse, which is also part of
the KCOM group. I had news last weekend, I'll have to check next time
I'm at home.

Andy