Re: tin: Posing not allowed

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.
[...]