add new group

[Russ Allbery]

Drew <usernumber1000 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Thank you for your reply.  Here is the readers.conf, w/ my ip and tld
> sanitized.

> # grep -v \# readers.conf | egrep '[a-z]|\}'
> auth "localhost" {
>     hosts: "localhost, 127.0.0.1, stdin"
>     default: "<localhost>"
> }
> access "localhost" {
>     users: "<localhost>"
>     newsgroups: "*,!junk,!control,!control.*"
>     access: RPA
> }
> auth "local" {
>         hosts: "x.x.x.x/14"
>         default: "<local>@toplevel"
> }
> access "local" {
>     newsgroups: "*,!junk,!control,!control.*"
>         access: RPA
> }

Hm, okay, that looks fine.

Try telnet <news-server> nntp, and then once you've connected, send:

    MODE READER
    GROUP <group-name>

where <group-name> is the name of the new group that you created.  What
happens?

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