Usenet not working

[#1]

The server is asking for a username and password now here.

[#2]

I use news.ic24.net getting same (asking for user name and password) thing is

I do have a username and password, but it is rejecting it !

[#3]

@cmwb - thanks for the info. IC24 is technically a seperate reseller account, although I'd already noticed that traffic had slowed to a crawl over there too.

I'm still waiting on Giganews to get back to me.

[#4]

Same here.

A repeat of the issue I reported a while ago https://community.plus.net/t5/Everything-else/usenet-plus-net/m-p/1850834

[#5]

I've had word that a fix has now been implemented for this issue.

A quick test suggests that the Plusnet news server is now responsive and no longer prompting for authentication. Can folk check and let me know if any problems persist?

I am seeing proxy/auth errors on the Madasafish server so I'm not convinced that's fixed yet. @cmwb - what are you seeing at your side?

[#6]

working OK on text.news.plus.net

Thank you!

[#7]

news.plus.net appears to be OK now. Thanks for your help and have a good weekend.

[#8]

Still wants authentication on news.plus.net for me using ThunderBird

[#9]

news.plus.net is now working on a RISC OS machine and an iMac.

Thanks, much appreciated.

[#10]

Hi Bob,

news all working in ic24 / Madasafish land !

Many thanks for your help.

[#11 · Accepted solution]

@cmwb - thanks, a further change has been made that looks to have fixed it.

@gladman - my Thunderbird isn't playing ball either (it's just timing out from what I can tell). If I create the newsgroup account again, things seem to work OK. The old account remains 'broken' though. I'm guessing something bad is getting cached somewhere.

[#12]

I have killed my old usenet account in ThunderBird and added a new account from scratch and it is now working.

[#13]

Out of interest - what version of Tbird?

[#14]

ThunderBird 91.11.0 (64-bit) running on Windows 11

[#15]

Working here with Thunderbird 91.11 on Windows 10 without any need to recreate accounts