* You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp.
@ 1996-09-08 11:39 Per Abrahamsen
1996-09-08 12:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
` (3 more replies)
0 siblings, 4 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Per Abrahamsen @ 1996-09-08 11:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
There is new a bidirectional gateway from ding@ifi.uio.no to the
public nntp server at sunsite.auc.dk. The address is:
<URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.ding>
With Netscape, you can just click on the URL to read the group. With
Gnus 5.3, it is a lot more work. Take the following as a bug report:
Clicking on the URL won't work. It parses the string as a message-id
rather than a host name. Instead, browse the nntp server with
`B nntp RET sunsite.auc.dk RET'
move point to the emacs.ding group, and press `u' to subscribe to the
group. Press `l' to get the normal group buffer back.
You can now read the `nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:emacs.ding' group.
Unfortunately, the number of read articles won't be updated. To fix
this, quit emacs. Now *don't* start a fresh Gnus! If you do, your
`.newsrc.eld' will be destroyed. Instead, load the `.newsrc.eld' in a
buffer, find the following line (search for "#")
("nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:emacs.ding" 3 nil nil (nntp "sunsite.auc.dk") ((quit-config #<killed buffer> . browse)))
and delete the "((quit-config #<killed buffer> . browse))"
expression. You can now start Gnus read the emacs.ding group as a normal
newsgroup.
To post to the emacs.ding group, you must press `C-u C-c C-c' instead
of `C-c C-c' in the message compose buffer. Otherwise, Gnus will
attempt to use your the local nntp instead of sunsite. I always
forget this, and think it is a bad default.
PS: I'd like to see all the (newsgroup-less) emacs mailing list on
sunsite, also those who only get a mail every second month. If
administrate a mailing list for some emacs package, please contact me.
PPS: I use the following script to feed the mail into the newsgroup,
and have the list itself as moderator. If there is any of the mail &
news experts here that can see problems with this approach, please let
me know. The script is called from /etc/aliases with the newsgroup as
argument.
#! /bin/sh
NNTPSERVER=sunsite.auc.dk
export NNTPSERVER
INEWS=/pack/dnews/inews
FORMAIL=/pack/procmail/bin/formail
NEWSGROUPS=$1
( $FORMAIL -I "Newsgroups: $NEWSGROUPS" \
-a "Approved: slist@sunsite.auc.dk" \
-R "From " "X-Mail-From: " \
-R "Received:" "X-Mail-Received:" \
-R "Path:" "X-Mail-Path:" \
-I "Path: slist" \
| $INEWS ) || exit 42
exit 0
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* Re: You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp.
1996-09-08 11:39 You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp Per Abrahamsen
@ 1996-09-08 12:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-09-08 13:37 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-09-08 13:58 ` David Kågedal
` (2 subsequent siblings)
3 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1996-09-08 12:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> There is new a bidirectional gateway from ding@ifi.uio.no to the
> public nntp server at sunsite.auc.dk. The address is:
>
> <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.ding>
>
> With Netscape, you can just click on the URL to read the group.
I've now fixed Red Gnus 0.30 to handle these urls sensibly -- Gnus
will open an ephemeral group to read these thingies.
> Instead, browse the nntp server with
>
> `B nntp RET sunsite.auc.dk RET'
>
> move point to the emacs.ding group, and press `u' to subscribe to the
> group. Press `l' to get the normal group buffer back.
>
> You can now read the `nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:emacs.ding' group.
> Unfortunately, the number of read articles won't be updated. To fix
> this, quit emacs. Now *don't* start a fresh Gnus! If you do, your
> `.newsrc.eld' will be destroyed. Instead, load the `.newsrc.eld' in a
> buffer, find the following line (search for "#")
>
> ("nntp+sunsite.auc.dk:emacs.ding" 3 nil nil (nntp "sunsite.auc.dk") ((quit-config #<killed buffer> . browse)))
I seem to be unable to reproduce this bug...
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp.
1996-09-08 12:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1996-09-08 13:37 ` Per Abrahamsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Per Abrahamsen @ 1996-09-08 13:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>
> > There is new a bidirectional gateway from ding@ifi.uio.no to the
> > public nntp server at sunsite.auc.dk. The address is:
> >
> > <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.ding>
> >
> > With Netscape, you can just click on the URL to read the group.
>
> I've now fixed Red Gnus 0.30 to handle these urls sensibly -- Gnus
> will open an ephemeral group to read these thingies.
It would be nice if it also handled
<URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/>
which should correspond to `B nntp RET sunsite.auc.dk' in *Group*.
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* Re: You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp.
1996-09-08 11:39 You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp Per Abrahamsen
1996-09-08 12:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1996-09-08 13:58 ` David Kågedal
1996-09-08 16:46 ` William Perry
1996-09-08 20:03 ` Steve Baumgarten
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: David Kågedal @ 1996-09-08 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> To post to the emacs.ding group, you must press `C-u C-c C-c' instead
> of `C-c C-c' in the message compose buffer. Otherwise, Gnus will
> attempt to use your the local nntp instead of sunsite. I always
> forget this, and think it is a bad default.
Or you can set the group parameter (to-list . "ding@ifi.uio.no) which
will send it by email to the list when you press C-c C-c.
--
David Kågedal Lysator Academic Computer Society davidk@lysator.liu.se
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~davidk/ +46-13 17 65 89
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* Re: You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp.
1996-09-08 11:39 You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp Per Abrahamsen
1996-09-08 12:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-09-08 13:58 ` David Kågedal
@ 1996-09-08 16:46 ` William Perry
1996-09-08 20:03 ` Steve Baumgarten
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: William Perry @ 1996-09-08 16:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
Per Abrahamsen writes:
>
>There is new a bidirectional gateway from ding@ifi.uio.no to the
>public nntp server at sunsite.auc.dk. The address is:
>
> <URL:news://sunsite.auc.dk/emacs.ding>
>
>With Netscape, you can just click on the URL to read the group. With
>Gnus 5.3, it is a lot more work. Take the following as a bug report:
Ahem... it should work if you use W3. :)
-Bill P.
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* Re: You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp.
1996-09-08 11:39 You can now ding@ifi.uio.no from nntp Per Abrahamsen
` (2 preceding siblings ...)
1996-09-08 16:46 ` William Perry
@ 1996-09-08 20:03 ` Steve Baumgarten
3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Steve Baumgarten @ 1996-09-08 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
Clicking on the URL won't work. It parses the string as a message-id
rather than a host name. Instead, browse the nntp server with
`B nntp RET sunsite.auc.dk RET'
move point to the emacs.ding group, and press `u' to subscribe to the
group. Press `l' to get the normal group buffer back.
This didn't work for me -- instead, I got:
Unable to contact server: sunsite.auc.dk DNEWS Version 2.5g, posting OK
which looks a lot like I *was* able to contact the server, but for
some reason Gnus didn't parse the response correctly.
This is running gnus v5.2.40 on emacs 19.30.
SBB
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