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Jean-Yves Perrier <perrier@nagra-kudelski.ch> writes:

> When I try to do H f to fetch the FAQ directly from Gnus, I never succeed
> as I need to go through a proxy.
> 
> W3 handles such proxies. Is there a way so to tell Gnus to use such a
> proxy?

  Do you need to go through an HTTP proxy to get the FAQ, or an FTP proxy?

-Bill P.