From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14808 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: ssh rulez Date: 28 Mar 1998 08:43:01 -0800 Organization: none Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153939 18327 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:45:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11053 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 08:44:21 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA04236 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:45:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAH22813; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:45:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:44:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22765 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:43:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 9580 invoked by uid 504); 28 Mar 1998 16:43:39 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 9577 invoked from network); 28 Mar 1998 16:43:39 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 28 Mar 1998 16:43:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12520 invoked by uid 509); 28 Mar 1998 16:43:36 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pm5-45.sba1.avtel.net Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 891103415 12405 (None) 207.71.222.45 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.6.2/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14808 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14808 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Someone told me that ssh was quite good at compressing things, so I > switched compression on and used the following select method: > > (nntp "news" > (nntp-address "copper.uio.no") > (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh") > (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-rlogin) > (nntp-end-of-line "\n") > (nntp-rlogin-parameters > ("telnet" "news.uio.no" "nntp"))) > > And things go *way* faster over my 33.6k modem. I use the Gnus Agent > to download, and this, like, halves the time it takes to download > stuff. > > I found a bug in the nntp posting code, though. Fix in 5.6.4. Cool -- I was able to get info on 'rsh' but not 'ssh'. What is that a reference to? Searches for that file name 'ssh*' turn up nothing on several ftp sites. -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com