Sonic.net

With Sonic's Usenet servers on their way out, I thought I would resuscitate the eternal-september account that I created a couple of years ago but never really used. But when I switched newsservers and ran trn, all of the groups in my .newsrc were flagged as "Invalid (bogus) newsgroup found." I could maybe understand that with the ba.* newsgroups, but not rec.arts.tv, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, and other high-traffic groups. Is E-S out of the Usenet biz now?

If you don't log in with user name and password, eternal-september shows only the eternal-september.* hierarchy.

If you don't use your eternal-september account for 180 days, they delete it.

Ah, thank you, FMC. That explains why I couldn't recover my password; I haven't used the account in a couple of years. So I should just create a new account?

Then will it ask me to log in the first time I run trn?

[edit] Okay, I found the instructions (on Sonic's forums) for creating a file called "access" in my .trn directory. I did that, and I included the "Force Auth = yes" command, but E-S isn't asking me for a password when I run trn. Therefore, I still can't get to the non–E-S groups. What am I doing wrong?

Little late to this thread - but for what it's worth - I'm reading from eternal-september fine using trn from my sonic shell account.

My "access" file within the ~/.trn directory includes the password (in the clear)

It's a throw-way password, so I don't care. (The "access" file is chmod 600)

Regards,

Mark

Hi, Mark.

Sorry I didn't post an update on my E-S problem. Turned out that I needed a few more lines in the ~/.trn/access file. I added those, and now E-S authenticates me for its Usenet server just fine.

Here's what I ended up with, in case this might help anyone else:

[e-s]
NNTP Server = news.eternal-september.org
Auth User = username
Auth Password = password
Force Auth = yes

[Group 1]
ID = e-s
Newsrc = ~/.newsrc
Add Groups = manual