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Re: People posting in my name

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On 04/01/2015 05:30 PM, jacob navia wrote:
> Le 01/04/2015 22:06, James Harris a écrit :
>> I don't know for sure that Eternal September would be able to reject
>> such posts from being injected in directly but it seems worth trying. I
>> wondered why Jacob has not tried that. AFAICS he has not even responded
>> to the suggestion.
> 
> Look, I tried during about 1 hour or more.
> 
> I opened an account in the web site, but got only their news groups.
> A small list of 7 or 8 newsgroup about their organization.

That's a restriction on their web-site, not on their news server.

> In the documentation they tell that to get all other newsgroups I should 
> click in the check box "Always ask for identification" in thunderbird, 
> what I did.
> 
> But I got always the same small list of newsgroups. I got out of 
> thunderbird, closed it several times, nothing.
> 
> Then, I thought that maybe I should get a certificate authority, as they 
> said somewhere in their confusing docs. Then, I got into the CACert web 
> site, and did steps one and two, as they said that it was necessary in 
> their docs.
> 
> I imported then the certificates into thunderbird. This time when I quit 
> thunderbird and then reopened, it asked me for my user name and 
> password. I wrote the ones I got from them in an email, and was very happy.
> 
> But then... STILL THE SAME THING!
> 
> I do not see any other groups than the eternal september groups.
> 
> I have tried many other things, combinations of stuff and got tired
> and stopped.

Here's the procedure for setting up Thunderbird  to use
eternal-september as a news server under Ubuntu Linux (hopefully, the
procedure under Windows isn't too different):
1. Go to Edit/Account Settings/Account Actions/Add Other Account.
2. Select "Newsgroup account".
3. Set up your identity as you wish, then hit "Next". The e-mail address
you select here need not be a real one, or one that you have any control
over.
4. Fill in the name for the newsgroup server you want to use, then hit
"Next". See
<http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=techinfo> for a
list of the available server names.
5. Fill in your desired name for this account, and select "Next".
6. Select "Finish".
7. Select the new account from the Account Settings window. Identify the
mail server you want to use if you want to e-mail a message at the same
time you post it to usenet. Notice the button that says "Manage
identities". That's where I'd go if I wanted to post messages using a
faked identity. You can set up a completely separate set of folders
under Thunderbird for each identity.
8. Go to the Server Settings for your new account. Make sure that the
port number corresponds to the one specified for your selected server on
<http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=techinfo>.
9. Set the other account settings as you desire.
10. Select "OK" on the Account Settings window.
11. Select your new account from the main Thunderbird window. It should
ask for your eternal-september userid and password somewhere along the
line, possibly here. It's been a long time since I first did that, and I
no longer remember exactly when it collected that information, but it's
NOT part of the Account Settings window. Possibly, even if I did
remember, the correct answer would have changed by now.

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    Re: People posting in my name jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-03-17 23:14 +0100
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    Re: People posting in my name BruceS <bruces42@hotmail.com> - 2015-03-17 17:22 -0600
  Re: People posting in my name Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-17 15:27 -0700
    Re: People posting in my name Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-17 16:14 -0700
      Re: People posting in my name jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-03-18 00:36 +0100
        Re: People posting in my name glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-18 00:48 +0000
    Re: People posting in my name glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-17 23:35 +0000
    Re: People posting in my name jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-03-18 00:40 +0100
      Re: People posting in my name Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-17 17:19 -0700
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            Re: People posting in my name Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-22 23:42 +0000
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      Re: People posting in my name Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-18 07:25 +0000
    Re: People posting in my name David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-03-18 10:20 +0100
      Re: People posting in my name "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 21:06 +0100
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