Re: reading groups.google.com with gnus?

Re: reading groups.google.com with gnus?

[Eric S Fraga]

Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:

> The newsserver I've been using has been shut down.
> There is at least one usenet group (comp.lang.forth) I'm still interested in.
> Can Gnus read groups from groups.google.com? How?

I don't think it can but I'm sure somebody will correct me if I am
wrong.  If it cannot, it's not gnus's fault; I believe that google
doesn't support nttp access to its groups.

in any case, have you checked out any of the free news servers out
there?  I use nntp.aioe.org which is fine for low volume contributions
(I think they impose some reasonable limits).  I'm offline so I cannot
check to see if comp.lang.forth is there but I cannot see why it
wouldn't be as many other groups in the comp.lang.* hierarchy are
present.

HTH,
eric

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1 + No Gnus v0.18

Re: reading groups.google.com with gnus?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:51:46 +0000 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: 

ESF> Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:
>> The newsserver I've been using has been shut down.
>> There is at least one usenet group (comp.lang.forth) I'm still interested in.
>> Can Gnus read groups from groups.google.com? How?

ESF> I don't think it can but I'm sure somebody will correct me if I am
ESF> wrong.  If it cannot, it's not gnus's fault; I believe that google
ESF> doesn't support nttp access to its groups.

Right.  It's intentionally inaccessible, like the vast majority of web
forums.

Ted

Re: reading groups.google.com with gnus?

[James Cloos]

>>> The newsserver I've been using has been shut down.
>>> There is at least one usenet group (comp.lang.forth) I'm still interested in.
>>> Can Gnus read groups from groups.google.com? How?

news.eternal-september.org is the typical recomendation of late for cost-free
r/w usenet access.

http://eternal-september.org/ has the details on how to sign up for an account.

They even support starttls on ports 119 and 80, and nntps on ports 563 and 443.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: reading groups.google.com with gnus?

[Leonidas Tsampros]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:51:46 +0000 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: 
>
> ESF> Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:
>>> The newsserver I've been using has been shut down.
>>> There is at least one usenet group (comp.lang.forth) I'm still interested in.
>>> Can Gnus read groups from groups.google.com? How?
>
> ESF> I don't think it can but I'm sure somebody will correct me if I am
> ESF> wrong.  If it cannot, it's not gnus's fault; I believe that google
> ESF> doesn't support nttp access to its groups.
>
> Right.  It's intentionally inaccessible, like the vast majority of web
> forums.
>
> Ted

Actually, using the old google groups web interface there was a very
nice UI where you could subscribe to groups and receive all the new
mails in your inbox. You could even subscribe to receive the mails in an
address other than your @gmail.com one. 

In order to get them fancy-split, I'm still using this rule here:

("list-id" ".*<\\(.+\\)\\.googlegroups\\.com>.*" "mail.gg.\\1")

That's the method I used to subscribe to some google groups, however I
remember some difficulty on how to subscribe by mail to groups using
there new UI blabla.

Leonidas