> From: "Sonic.net Tech Support" <http://www.sonic.net/~support> > Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:30:35 -0700 > > > > the username and password. > > > > Actually, I use "suck" to download the articles for later reading. > > > > I just looked at my script and it never passed either the user name nor a > > password to retrieve the articles. But, it does first try > > "news.sonic.net" and, if that doesn't work, uses "supernews.sonic.net". > > This may be the first time it has ever tried the supernews feed, so > > perhaps that is why I never ran into this problem before. > > > > In any case, is it the case that "news.sonic.net" does not require a > > password (authentication), but "supernews.sonic.net" does? > > If you're coming from a Sonic.net IP, yes. You only need to authenticate on > news.sonic.net from IP space outside our network. For Supernews, you'll need to > make sure you're typing in your username as "http://www.sonic.net/~username" (without the > quotes). OK, then, this must've just been a blip -- a temporary failure. I guess I'll have to figure out how to provide the username and password to suck when using supernews. You can go ahead and close this ticket.