From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21811 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: reading from DejaNews or from a foreign server Date: 05 Mar 1999 21:14:22 +0100 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 1035159846 24872 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:24:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28254 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:30:29 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB18661; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:29:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 05 Mar 1999 14:29:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA18245 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:28:27 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (larsi@ppp085.uio.no [129.240.240.90]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA28117 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:28:13 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA31270; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 21:27:40 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Kjartan =?iso-8859-1?q?Fl=F8gstads?= _Dalen Portland_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Jack Vinson's message of "04 Mar 1999 14:57:47 -0600" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070081 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.81) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > When I try to connect to dejanews with 'G w,' I don't seem to be getting > any articles, even when I specify very busy groups like comp.lang.c. I get > the message "Couldn't request group: No matching articles." Maybe I don't > quite get how that is supposed to work. (I was hoping to simply to connect > to the group and start reading, but the *Info* page makes it sound like > that is difficult at best.) `G w' will search for articles containing the string "comp.lang.c". Anyway, DejaNews have changed their layout yet again, so I wouldn't be surprised if nnweb broke again. > I tried the obvious: gnus-browse-foreign-server, but I get errors on > connecting. My guess is that I need to telnet in and then connect to the > news server. I am guessing I need to set the nntp-open-connection-function > to nntp-open-telnet, but it is not clear how to do this only for the > foreign group. How do I set the the secondary-select-method to get happy? Create a virtual server with the right settings in the server buffer, and then give the name of this server when you are prompted for a backend when `B'ing. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen