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From: Urs =?UTF-8?Q?Jan=C3=9Fen?= <urs@buil.tin.org>
Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers,news.software.readers,alt.comp.software.newsreaders
Subject: Re: tin: Posing not allowed
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:56:23 -0000 (UTC)
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Anton Shepelev wrote:
>> Why can `tin' be printing:
>> 
>>   Can't get a (fully qualified) domain-name!
>> 
>> to STDERR at startup? Can it be the cause of it showing the following
>> message:
>> 
>>  *** Posing not allowed ***
>> 
>> at the bottom of the screen every time I press `w' to
>> post an article to any newsgroup on any server (anonymous or not)
>> even though at startup tin wrote:
>> 
>>   (posting ok)

[<http://bzr.tin.org/README>]
[...]
| Note that tin requires a valid fully qualified domain name for the host
| you are running tin on. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A HOST NAME WITH A VALID DOMAIN
| GO AND GET ONE AND CONFIGURE YOUR HOST -- NOW! (This will prevent problems
! with other software, too.) Otherwise users may get "Invalid Sender" error
! messages and won't be able to post using the internal inews.
[...]