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NetProb ticket #4717, newsgroups

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mbarker@MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 24 17:53:05 1996

From: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 17:52:38 -0400
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU

I think trn is one of yours?

thanks
mike

>From rushlyn@MIT.EDU Wed Oct 23 13:04:57 1996
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>To: bugs@MIT.EDU
>Subject: newsgroups
>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:04:46 EDT
>
>
>I don't know if this is the right place to post this,
>but I didn't know where else!
>
>I use the newsgroups (via 'trn').
>Some of the newsgroups need authorization to post.
>So I email them and ask for authorization.
>They give me authorization for the username    "rushlyn@mit.edu".
>
>However, when I try to post something via the newsgroup,
>for some reason, it reads me as "rushlyn@athena.mit.edu".
>I suspect this is a remnant from days gone by when "athena" was
>necessary.
>
>Problem is, their authorization is NOT for @athena.mit.edu, but only
>for @mit.edu, and I can't post.  
>
>Is it possible for this to be fixed?
>Could I receive confirmation of this email and whether or not this
>would ever be fixed?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-- Loretta Pioch
>rushlyn@mit.edu
>
>

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