From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41349 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ami Fischman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: google as a news server, redux Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 12:30:14 -0800 Organization: Gnus Information Center Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <818zbhu84p.fsf@zion.bpnetworks.com> References: <2nk7v544p1.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> <2n7kr2v9hj.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176758 5639 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:05:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 15795 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2002 20:26:03 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 1 Jan 2002 20:26:03 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16LVTe-0006Hl-00; Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:25:38 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 01 Jan 2002 14:25:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA18027 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 14:25:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 15785 invoked by alias); 1 Jan 2002 20:25:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15780 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2002 20:25:20 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 1 Jan 2002 20:25:20 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16LVTh-00027X-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jan 2002 21:25:41 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zion.bpnetworks.com Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1009916741 8128 207.199.66.114 (1 Jan 2002 20:25:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Jan 2002 20:25:41 GMT Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MuMrw/FfCNaC/4LhTuOUnjasq/0= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41349 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41349 ShengHuo ZHU writes: [...] > It works fine for me. I am not sure whether it is a url package > related problem or not. If you have wget, lynx or curl installed, > maybe you can try (setq mm-url-use-external t). I'm having the same trouble as the OP (exact same error message). Trapping the call to wget (I already have mm-url-use-external set to t), I see that the command line it is passed is: wget -q -O - 'http://groups.google.com/groups?q=group%3Agnu.emacs.gnus&num=100&hq=&hl=&lr=&safe=off&sites=groups' (quoting may be off b/c of the way I catch the args) and google replies with: Forbidden

Forbidden

Your client from the IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx does not have permission to get URL /groups?q=group%3Agnu.emacs.gnus&num=100&hq=&hl=&lr=&safe=off&sites=groups from this server.

Please see Google's Terms of Service posted at http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html

If you believe that you have received this response in error, please send email to forbidden@google.com. In your email, please let us know the IP address from which you are querying (it is shown above). This will help us track down the problem. (linebreaking may be slightly off, this is an X copy/paste). Google's TOS prohibits "offline searches", though they don't define what that means. But SZ's ability to use google probably means that google isn't blocking this on purpose (?). Any ideas what's causing this? Could it be that google blocks certain IP blocks for some reason? (I can search google via a webbrowser just fine from this IP). -- Ami Fischman usenet@fischman.org