From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
Cc: Gnus List <ding@ifi.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Browse Foreign Server:
Date: 15 Mar 1996 09:16:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qw620muwz3p.fsf@gargantua.enst.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: khan@cs.purdue.edu's message of 14 Mar 1996 15:08:17 -0500
>>>>> "Muhammad" == Muhammad Farrukh Khan <khan@cs.purdue.edu> writes:
Muhammad> So far, I have been unable to read an nntp server outside of
Muhammad> my school. Each site seems to come back with "Unable to
Muhammad> contact server: could'nt open connection to ". Other times
Muhammad> I also got a message "Server does not have permission to
Muhammad> talk...". Am I missing something?
You cannot connect to an arbitrary NNTP server and expect it to honore
your requests. You must connect either to an open NNTP server (there
is a list somewhere on the web, use a search engine to locate it) or
to a NNTP server which has been set up to let your particuliar host
access it.
Sam
--
"La cervelle des petits enfants, ca doit avoir comme un petit gout de noisette"
Charles Baudelaire
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-03-15 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-03-14 19:03 Sent-Message-IDs file d. hall
1996-03-14 20:08 ` Browse Foreign Server: Muhammad Farrukh Khan
1996-03-15 8:16 ` Samuel Tardieu [this message]
1996-03-15 17:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-03-15 17:41 ` Sent-Message-IDs file Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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