On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Gary Kleppe wrote:

On Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:47:25 -0500 (EST), Stheneleos@aol.com wrote:

Since when do you need a user name and password to acess
rec.arts.anime.creative ?

Um... you don't. (Is this a trick question?) Not unless your ISP
requires that stuff to access your news server, in which case it will be
the same for all newsgroups.

	Gary, he may be referring to Zippo Dot Com, a newsgroup
subscription service for browsers.. I used it all the time when my own
news server went on the blink.. (which is almost all the time now).

	But today, when I tried to use Zippo, it asked me for a username
and password. Apparently, raac has been moved from their 'free to the
public' service over to the 'gotta pay to use this one' service.

	*sigh*

	Or else they've installed new software, and it's confused as to
which groups are supposed to be in which catagory, in which case, a few
sharply pointed letters might help. 

	Hope that helps clairify things..

	Ed

	"Dreamers may die, but the dream is eternal..."