From: Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: reading news over telnet
Date: 17 Aug 1999 20:22:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubtc6mcv9.fsf@lanber.cam.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dsg@mitre.org's message of "17 Aug 1999 15:11:03 -0400"
David> David S. Goldberg <URL:mailto:dsg@mitre.org>
>> Why isn't it possible that gnus connect *directly* to the foreign
>> server using telnet? Apparently talking to a external news server
>> through telnet works (through the firewall):
0> In article <m1bu2py9q9k.fsf@blackbird.mitre.org>, David wrote:
David> Whatever your sysadmin told you, your firewall isn't blocking
David> NNTP.
Unless the telnet program he's using has some non-standard magic
compiled into it (e.g. SOCKS support) that Emacs doesn't.
Not sure how to configure the Gnus nntp backend to use an external
telnet, though - is it in the manual?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-17 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-17 14:33 Max Froumentin
1999-08-17 14:42 ` Max Froumentin
1999-08-17 15:04 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-08-17 18:14 ` Max Froumentin
1999-08-17 19:11 ` David S. Goldberg
1999-08-17 19:22 ` Toby Speight [this message]
1999-08-17 20:37 ` David S. Goldberg
1999-08-19 15:07 ` Max Froumentin
1999-09-24 18:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-08-17 15:57 ` Sam Falkner
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