trouble adding a newsgroup

Hello, 

I've been downloading news from my ISP using snget and reading it with XRn. 
That's working fine. I can subscribe to new groups, delete groups, etc., 
etc., no problems. 

Thanks! 

Now I'm trying to download news from an additional news server: 
news.eclipse.org

It's not working yet. Here's what I've done, as root.

1) snnewgroup eclipse.newcomer news.eclipse.org 119
2) cd   /var/spool/news/.outgoing/news.eclipse.org:119
3) echo my-username >username
4) echo my-password >password
5) chmod 600 username password
6) snget

At this point, snget downloads news articles from my ISP (no problem), but 
when it attempts to download articles from news.eclipse.org, I get these 
error messages:

  snfetch:eclipse.newcomer:Bad response to GROUP, got "480 Authentication
  required for command"
  snget:reap:job eclipse.newcomer exited 3
  cat: username: Permission denied
  snfetch:eclipse.newcomer:Bad response to GROUP, got "480 Authentication
  required for command"
  snget:reap:job eclipse.newcomer exited 3
  snget:reap:Giving up on eclipse.newcomer

Because news.eclipse.org allows me access to its newsgroups via the web (after 
asking for a username and password), I expect that this username and password 
is valid and activated. Thus, I expect that the same username and password 
are valid and activated when accessing news via sn. But maybe that's not so. 
It's only been a couple hours since I was assigned the username and password.

Questions:

- Have I missed anything in the setup, failed to do something required? 

- Anyone else trying to pull news from news.eclipse.org, successfully or 
unsuccessfully while using sn?

- Is this problem simply one caused by the news server at news.eclipse.org 
being slow to update its passwd file or some other file?


Thanks, 

Steve Whitlatch