Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: daniel@reichardt.ch (Daniel Hartmeier) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.internet Subject: Re: Posting to scea.* Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 08:39:33 GMT Organization: Reichardt Informatik AG Lines: 34 Message-ID: <359d458f.7911986@news.reichardt.ch> References: <359ee79c.6169631@news.reichardt.ch> <359ab165.78568463@news.scea.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: empty177.magnet.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 On Wed, 01 Jul 1998 22:03:03 GMT, matth@bellatlantic.net (Matthew Hulett) wrote: > >If I try to post to scea.yaroze.announce, I get the error message: > > > > 441 Permission denied > > I don't know if this has any bearing on your situation, but on our > newsgroup description page, it states that only the professional staff > can post new threads in the announce section. This threw me off once, > until I figured out that SCEA members could post there as in any > other group. Perhaps your news server has the proper protocol... > But if you were just trying to post a follow-up, that would not be the > prob. How does their newsserver define a follow-up? A message that has in its References: header field a message id of an already existing message? Is the Subject: header field ignored? Strange rule. I was actually trying to post a follow-up when the error occurred. And I'm pretty sure my newsreader knows how to do that :-) RFC977 (standard paper describing the NNTP protocol) says that the return code 441 after the command POST means 'posting failed'. The error code for 'posting not allowed' would be 440. Is that newsserver properly configured? Regards, -- Daniel Hartmeier PGP 6A3A7409 ICQ# 12742482 "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."