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On Thu, 24 May 2001, David Banning wrote:

:
:The news server I am accessing is requesting username and password.
:Tin, as far as I can see does not provide an option to enter one.
:$ man tin | grep password
:the word doesn't even exist in tin man.

Sure it does.  Read the manpage.  You can enter the password interactivly,
or you can use a .newsauth file.

David
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