From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5541 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Browse Foreign Server: Date: 15 Mar 1996 09:16:10 +0100 Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications Sender: tardieu@email.enst.fr Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146131 664 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:35:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:35:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Gnus List Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA03748 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 01:12:08 -0800 Original-Received: from enst.enst.fr (xOYFzce2NKbrCBOmAsFdyJHSjVn6sdpG@enst.enst.fr [137.194.2.16]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:20:59 +0100 Original-Received: from email.enst.fr (root@email.enst.fr [137.194.160.46]) by enst.enst.fr (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA00373; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:20:29 +0100 Original-Received: from gargantua.enst.fr (gargantua.enst.fr [137.194.160.55]) by email.enst.fr (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA15972; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:16:15 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (tardieu@localhost) by gargantua.enst.fr (8.6.10/8.6.10) id JAA09812; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 09:16:12 +0100 Original-To: khan@cs.purdue.edu (Muhammad Farrukh Khan) In-Reply-To: khan@cs.purdue.edu's message of 14 Mar 1996 15:08:17 -0500 Original-Lines: 18 Precedence: special-delivery X-WWW: http://autan.enst.fr/~tardieu/ X-PGP-key: finger -l tardieu@cyclic.com X-Mail-Processing: Sam's procmail tools Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5541 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5541 >>>>> "Muhammad" == Muhammad Farrukh Khan 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