Re: slrn - posting to newsgroup rejected
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
>
> > I hope somebody can help me with this one: Why do my messages posted to a
> > newsgroup from slrn land up in /var/spool/slrnpull/out.going/rejected?
>
> Without seeing any error messages it's hard to say, but I would guess
> that the problem is that the upstream news server is rejecting them.
> Do you need to authenticate to post? Do your posts contain a very small
> proportion of non-quoted material? What error do you get if you try to
> post directly to the server?
I did not see any error messages. When I saw that my message did not
appear on the newsgroup, I checked the out.going directory to find the
message in "rejected". I have a dialup system and slrnpull is activated
from /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
Johann
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