Re: How to Track down why gmane is asking for authentication suddenly

[Markus Korber]

Thus spake Harry:

> Running Debian 'testing'
> Emacs-24 - gnus (1wk since last git pull), so magnus.
> 
> [...]
> 
> It didn't work, but this morning I'm suddenly being hit with authentication
> prompts from gmane server 'news.gmane.org'  Asking me for my User name.
> when of course I don't have one and should not need one.
>
> Just ignoring the message and pressing <enter> seems to launch gnus into a
> massive read of all my `read' messages which would number thousands and
> thousands.

Same here with Ubuntu 12.04, Emacs 23.3.1 and No Gnus v0.11.  However
only for one subscribed group (gmane.comp.hardware.arm.lpc2100) and not
for others (e.g. gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.general).  Any ideas?

Regards,
Markus Korber