.I adverbial modifier
which runs another command
(typically a newsreader)
-in an environment in which at can,
+in an environment in which it can,
transparently to it,
make connections to certain NNTP servers
which usually require
authentication before they'll permit clients to read or post.
This is useful because support for
.B AUTHINFO GENERIC
-has never been especially widely supported by newsreaders
+has never been especially widely implemented by newsreaders
and now seems to be being withdrawn from those newsreaders
which used to support it.
.PP
.PP
See below for details about the configuration file.
.PP
-To hedge against the unlikely event that the desired
+To hedge against the
.IR command 's
-name actually begins with
+name containing an
+.RB ` = '
+or, less plausibly, beginning with
.RB ` + ',
an argument consisting of a
.RB ` + '
and may be equal to the
.I remote
address (below) without causing difficulty.
+Note that
+.B with-authinfo-kludge
+will not do anything to encourage the client
+to connect to the right address;
+its caller must arrange to configure the client correctly,
+e.g., by setting the
+.B NNTPSERVER
+environment variable appropriately.
.TP
.BI nntpauth= "parameter arguments\fR..."
Set the AUTHINFO GENERIC authentication parameter and arguments
.B via
parameter.
The default is to use
+.\" FIXME Fuck you openssh
127.1.0.1:119.
It is
.I not
Let
.I config-home
denote the configuration home directory so determined.
+.\" FIXME XDG_CONFIG_DIRS too now
.hP 5.
A `tag' is chosen, as follows.
If the
.PP
The runtime directory contains a number of other directories,
named
+.\" FIXME junk, new, naming
+.\" session dirs now entirely different
.IR tag . pid \fR.
Each such directory corresponds to a running
(or failed)