From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24718 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: reading news over telnet Date: 17 Aug 1999 16:37:38 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035162235 10228 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:03:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:03:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18659 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAB07257; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:38:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:38:46 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09677 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:38:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from linus.mitre.org (linus.mitre.org [129.83.10.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA18641 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:37:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from blackbird.mitre.org (blackbird [129.83.65.14]) by linus.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA22098 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:37:39 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from dsg@localhost) by blackbird.mitre.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA03565; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:37:38 -0400 (EDT) Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: The Gnus Mailing List X-Face: GUaHTH@nS>[7,ME@-gYZ4#Wl{z"99k@[[Y8AcP0x1paqu.,z9,XSV1WI>{q3f6^e5(zrit <4fV&VHhmE`uidRqtmG27;si9&r;#KSF~E#$%W8w(xdp)H4tW=\2XOk~3=@oGqqpj;m4xf Ow;y26396&,34@9#~4;@*S;E0cq"LM9N(us4P%F(Nxis'Vvfm9?KufH;:Q$dMa-QWGLR&K d0`LJZE8xb*>^yN>b]_NcU:E=Zn\1=#/(OS2 In-Reply-To: Toby Speight's message of "17 Aug 1999 20:22:02 +0100" Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24718 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24718 David> Whatever your sysadmin told you, your firewall isn't blocking David> NNTP. TS> Unless the telnet program he's using has some non-standard magic TS> compiled into it (e.g. SOCKS support) that Emacs doesn't. Good point. I haven't seen SOCKS used in so long I hadn't considered it. If that's what he needs, then he probably can have gnus telnet directly to the host at port 119 though I don't know exactly what variables he'd need to set. -- Dave Goldberg Post: The Mitre Corporation\MS B325\202 Burlington Rd.\Bedford, MA 01730 Phone: 781-271-3887 Email: dsg@mitre.org