many thanks to all the suggestions that I got for setting up authentification for news.
I solvered the problem in the short term by writing a quick and nasty version of suck in python that would handle authentificaton and this seems to work well for the moment. Amny thanks Joe -- ======================================================================= in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own business [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Berengis the Black http: www.earthlight.co.nz/users/joe| Court Mage to the Earls Caeline ======================================================================== -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]