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rn gives misleading message when news server down

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 14 13:25:30 1990

To: usenet@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 13:25:02 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

	% telnet bloom-beacon nntp
	Trying...
	Connected to BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU.
	Escape character is '^]'.
	502 Bloom-beacon is down for software maintainance. Try again later.
	Connection closed by foreign host.
	% rn
	This machine does not have permission to use the bloom-beacon.mit.edu news server.

"rn" should have reported the status message I saw with telnet.  "This
machine does not have permission" is the kind of message that makes me
chase down and bother the maintainers of net news until they fix it.
"bloom-beacon is down" will make me try again later.

  --John Carr

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