Re: Problems with -R option

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:29:16PM +0400, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> > do you use the -A cmd. line flag? if so, drop it.
> Yes, that's it.  I had it in the  alias  for  'rtin'
> because  my  other  server  does require initial au-
> thenification.  It works now.  Could you  suggest  a
> way to define for which servers to use the -A option
> and for which not?  .newsauth doesn't seem  to  have
> this setting...

Tin has a (currently very limited) config per nntp-server file

[tin(5)]
| ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/$NNTPSERVER${NNTPPORT:+":$NNTPPORT"}/serverrc
|
|      File  to store $NNTPSERVER and $NNTPPORT related data via a  list
|      of "variable=value" pairs. Currently there are  only  two vari‐
|      ables, both are not meant to be changed by the user.
|           version
|                  Internal version number.
|
|           last_newnews
|                  Internal  timestamp  used  by tin(1) to keep track of new
|                  newsgroups on the server.

So if someone is going to add such an option that would be the place to put
it to (but as this didn't happen within the last ~7 years it might take "a
while").