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Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> writes:

> '(nntp "bob2"
>        (nntp-address "foo.bob.com")
>        (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-telnet)
>        (nntp-telnet-parameters '("exec" "telnet" "-8" "news.bob.com" "nntp"))
>        )
> 
> Of course, none of this works.  Could it simply be that telnet from NT
> doesn't understand all the proper switches?

Is foo.bob.com an NT machine?  If not, then telnet isn't run on an NT
box, which means that it doesn't matter much...

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