You may wish to un-set this setting for a brief period of time. (a few days ... a week?)
Other people that have been using newsreaders will not be able to read this explanation or the solution unless they think of going to eGroups.com. Again, a change of this nature should only be made after an announcement that it is coming so people have a chance to adapt. -- -Richard M. Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW! Ryan Robertson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > >Richard and everyone else, > >> Was anybody else taken by surprise when the news.palmos.com >> server started refusing access yesterday? In the morning it was >> just fine, but in the afternoon I started getting this error: >> >> Server Response: >> 480 This group is only available to members. Please enter your email >> address and password into your News Browser. >> >> when you make a change like this, NOTIFY people ahead of time !!!! > >That was my bad. There is a setting in the server manager that restricts >access to guests, however the setting states that it only affects the web >interface (which we clearly don't have). I wasn't aware that it also >affected the newsgroup interface. > >Note that this only affects those of you who browse the forum's using a >newsgroup reader. > >To configure your newsgroup reader, enter your email address in the "account >name" field and the password you used when you subscribed in the "password" >field. If you don't remember setting a password, you can send the following >command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to add a password to your dev forums >account: > > set <list-name> pw=<password> > >If you've forgotten your password, you can either unsubscribe and >re-subscribe, or send me email and I'll reset it. > >I'm terribly sorry about the inconvenience. I would have posted a message >to the forums first if I thought the change would have affected newsgroup >access. > >Regards, > >-- >Ryan Robertson >Senior Software Engineer > > > -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
