Re: How to subscribe gnu.org mailing lists with gnus

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi list, 
> probably a not so smart question:
> how do I subscribe a gnu.org mailing list with gnus? 
> I tried 
>
> B nntp gnu.org  gcc.gnu.org an news.gnu.org
>
> but none of the three version worked out. I already subscribed on the
> web interface, but would like to read and post in gnus.

Hi,

I'm also quite a newbie...  If I try to do what you describe, Gnus says
the servers are refusing the connection.  So, may guess is that either
the servers you tried aren't existing, or you need to authenticate.

AFAIK you can't subscribe to mailing lists with a newsreader.  You can
only subscribe to groups.  Groups and mailing lists are two different
things.  However, some mailing lists are linked to a certain group via
a gateway, and thus those are synchronized.

So, you may want to find out if the mailing lists you want are mirrored
in a news group.  Then you need to find a news server where you can read
the newsgroup (not all newsservers will have the group you want).

If I'm totally wrong, maybe describe what you want and did in more
detail, and what messages you got etc.



Michael