From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81512 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to subscribe gnu.org mailing lists with gnus Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:31:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87wr71z80f.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <87aa42lg5v.fsf@googlemail.com> <86pqcua162.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330810237 5866 80.91.229.3 (3 Mar 2012 21:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:30:37 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29792@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Mar 03 22:30:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wXE-0003Ys-N8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:30:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wX6-0004Gd-HR; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:30:28 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wX5-0004GR-AX for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:30:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wX4-0001Xi-Hu for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:30:27 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wX2-0008BR-Vv for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:30:25 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3wWu-0003U4-HD for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:30:16 +0100 Original-Received: from e179041090.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.179.41.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:30:16 +0100 Original-Received: from quintfall by e179041090.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:30:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 48 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e179041090.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/FXEYUHWcVU4ueBO1QrsFVVB/zM= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81512 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Thorsten writes: Hi Michael, >> 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. I think nntp was the wrong (a tad naive) approach anyway ... > 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. I was a bit confused about that, having subscribed to so many mailing lists on gmane. > 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. I already figured out that I had ignored the difference of a mailing list and a newsgroup. If that list turns out to be important for me, I will request it being added to gmane. Thanks for your help. -- cheers, Thorsten