Make nntplib aware of ~/.netrc credentials; now they get used if they are
present and the caller has not specified a name/password pair. This change
makes it less likely that a lazy coder will expose sensitive information in a
word-readable script.
Also, make the test a bit smarter. If NNTPSERVER is defined in the environment
it will go talk to that server rather than look for a possibly nonexistent
local one named 'news'. Maybe the osession initializer ought to look at
NNTPSERVER rather than requiring a host arg? Must look around and see how
universal this convention is first.