[PLUG] Setting Up Thunderbird for Usenet

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Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
>>  I know that aracnet wants authentification, which I have for me in
>> ~/.slrnrc, as "nnrpaccess ...". I don't know where to put the 
>> equivalent for
>> Thunderbird.
> 
> 
>   Well, I put the required servername, username, ans password in her
> ~/.thunderbird/News/news.aracnet.com (not sure the string's correct, I'm
> doing it from memory), and still cannot get a list of available news 
> groups.
> 
> Rich
> 
Hi Rich,

Are you putting in your entire email address for authentication?
It's a quirk of aracnet. iirc

Harry