Re: NNTP client considerations; how to avoid 480 error?

era <[email protected]> writes:
> I used to be able to use slrnpull on Debian out of the box to poll
> Gmane.
> Unfortunately, this is no longer feasible for a lambda running in AWS.
<...>
> With readermode=True, it works fine for a while, but then I get an NNTP
> 480 error which traditionally seems to mean I should authenticate to the
> server. Except, if I try to authenticate, Gmane's NNTP server just
> rejects me immediately. (No wonder; I just made up my "credentials".)
> Right now, it's just entering around 75 groups and getting the article
> counts; but it fails after 60. I added a sleep between groups but that
> did not help much. Making the sleep longer only means it fails after
> fewer groups.

Turns out a few of the groups I want to poll simply seem to always
return this error, regardless of how exactly I try to access them.

Weirdly, accessing them from Gnus or slrnpull was never a problem. I
wonder what secret sauce I need to give my Python script access to them?

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