From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21768 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jack Vinson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: reading from DejaNews or from a foreign server Date: 04 Mar 1999 14:57:47 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159810 24636 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:23:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:23:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA26858 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:01:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB09296; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:59:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:59:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA04355 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:59:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from gatekeeper4 (firewall-user@internet1-chi.monsanto.com [204.233.233.43]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA26809 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 15:59:21 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by gatekeeper4; id OAA21642; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:58:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from unknown(137.35.49.136) by gatekeeper4.monsanto.com via smap (V4.2) id xma021241; Thu, 4 Mar 99 14:58:35 -0600 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Zippy: Now that I have my ``APPLE,'' I comprehend COST ACCOUNTING!! Original-Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21768 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21768 Well, it looks like I will need to do more News reading from a different source. The news server at work blows. When I try to connect to dejanews with 'G w,' I don't seem to be getting any articles, even when I specify very busy groups like comp.lang.c. I get the message "Couldn't request group: No matching articles." Maybe I don't quite get how that is supposed to work. (I was hoping to simply to connect to the group and start reading, but the *Info* page makes it sound like that is difficult at best.) So, the other option is to connect to my school server from work. I would like to do this as a foreign server. I tried the obvious: gnus-browse-foreign-server, but I get errors on connecting. My guess is that I need to telnet in and then connect to the news server. I am guessing I need to set the nntp-open-connection-function to nntp-open-telnet, but it is not clear how to do this only for the foreign group. How do I set the the secondary-select-method to get happy? What if the news server I am familiar with is a spool, but on a foreign server? Does that even make sense? It would need my login ID and password if they aren't the same as the ones on this system, right? -- Jack Vinson http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson/ Zippy: I'm reporting for duty as a modern person. I want to do the Latin Hustle now!