Re: tin: Posing not allowed

Urs Janßen <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:56:23 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups alt.free.newsservers,news.software.readers,alt.comp.software.newsreaders
Organization tin.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anton Shepelev wrote:
>> Why can `tin' be printing:
>> 
>>   Can't get a (fully qualified) domain-name!
>> 
>> to STDERR at startup? Can it be the cause of it showing the following
>> message:
>> 
>>  *** Posing not allowed ***
>> 
>> at the bottom of the screen every time I press `w' to
>> post an article to any newsgroup on any server (anonymous or not)
>> even though at startup tin wrote:
>> 
>>   (posting ok)

[<http://bzr.tin.org/README>]
[...]
| Note that tin requires a valid fully qualified domain name for the host
| you are running tin on. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HOST NAME WITH A VALID DOMAIN
| GO AND GET ONE AND CONFIGURE YOUR HOST -- NOW! (This will prevent problems
! with other software, too.) Otherwise users may get "Invalid Sender" error
! messages and won't be able to post using the internal inews.
[...]