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Let's try this again....

I have access to a nntp news server called news.bob.com.  However, I
can only get to that news server if I first login to one of the machines at
bob.com (let's go with foo.bob.com).  What do I need to do to get news from
this server?

I've tried a couple iterations around a select method like this, based on
the vague clues in the *info* file
'(nntp "bob"
       (nntp-address "news.bob.com")
       (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-telnet)
 )

or

'(nntp "bob2"
       (nntp-address "foo.bob.com")
       (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-telnet)
       (nntp-telnet-parameters '("exec" "telnet" "-8" "news.bob.com" "nntp"))
       )

Of course, none of this works.  Could it simply be that telnet from NT
doesn't understand all the proper switches?

-- 
Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu>    http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson/
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