.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and now seems to be being withdrawn from those newsreaders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