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Trouble reading these forums as a newsgroup [message #1195388] Tue, 19 November 2013 00:32 Go to next message
Alexander Baier is currently offline Alexander BaierFriend
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Registered: November 2013
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Hello there,

I just registered a new eclipse account and tried to read a few of the subforums here as a newsgroup with thunderbird, but had no luck.

Every time I try to fetch messages from one of the newsgroups, thunderbird prompts me for a username and passwort. I then enter the credentials from my eclipse account and thunderbird answers me with "Login to server news.eclipse.org failed."

How can I read the messages on this board in a newsreader?

Regards,

Alex
Re: Trouble reading these forums as a newsgroup [message #1195688 is a reply to message #1195388] Tue, 19 November 2013 04:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Russell Bateman is currently offline Russell BatemanFriend
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On 11/18/2013 08:14 PM, Alexander Baier wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I just registered a new eclipse account and tried to read a few of the
> subforums here as a newsgroup with thunderbird, but had no luck.
>
> Every time I try to fetch messages from one of the newsgroups,
> thunderbird prompts me for a username and passwort. I then enter the
> credentials from my eclipse account and thunderbird answers me with
> "Login to server news.eclipse.org failed."
>
> How can I read the messages on this board in a newsreader?
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex

Yeah, it doesn't work like that. Most people usually have to ask. I
asked a couple of time when I lost my Thunderbird, then I wrote it down.
Sit tight, I think Dennis will tell you how here as soon as he sees it.
Re: Trouble reading these forums as a newsgroup [message #1196645 is a reply to message #1195688] Tue, 19 November 2013 14:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Denis Roy is currently offline Denis RoyFriend
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Configuring NNTP to use the same authentication as everything else is immensely painful, so we set a single user/password for everyone. Just fill out this form with your favourite bogus info and you'll see the credentials:
http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/register.php


Denis Roy
Eclipse Webmaster -- webmaster@eclipse.org
Re: Trouble reading these forums as a newsgroup [message #1197206 is a reply to message #1196645] Tue, 19 November 2013 20:14 Go to previous message
Alexander Baier is currently offline Alexander BaierFriend
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Registered: November 2013
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Denis Roy <forums-noreply@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Configuring NNTP to use the same authentication as everything else is
> immensely painful, so we set a single user/password for everyone.
> Just fill out this form with your favourite bogus info and you'll see
> the credentials: http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/register.php

Thank you, this works as expected!
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