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I cannot send a newsgroup message

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  • Last reply by brucelove

I am trying to connect to usenet via my news.newshosting.com account. I can read the newsgroups ok but cannot send a reply for some reason. I get "user posting not allowed" followed by " Sending of the message failed. The message could not be posted because connecting to the news server failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing connections. Please verify that your news server settings are correct and try again."

I am trying to connect to usenet via my news.newshosting.com account. I can read the newsgroups ok but cannot send a reply for some reason. I get "user posting not allowed" followed by " Sending of the message failed. The message could not be posted because connecting to the news server failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing connections. Please verify that your news server settings are correct and try again."

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have you set 'server settings' to request authentication? That is a common issue.

Turned it on -- no joy...but thanks

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