From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5545 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Browse Foreign Server: Date: 15 Mar 1996 18:41:12 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146134 669 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:35:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: khan@cs.purdue.edu (Muhammad Farrukh Khan) 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 KAA06849 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:25:53 -0800 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:41:15 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:41:13 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: khan@cs.purdue.edu's message of 14 Mar 1996 15:08:17 -0500 Original-Lines: 19 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5545 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5545 khan@cs.purdue.edu (Muhammad Farrukh Khan) writes: > So far, I have been unable to read an nntp server outside of my school. Each > site seems to come back with "Unable to contact server: could'nt open > connection to ". Other times I also got a message "Server does not have > permission to talk...". Am I missing something? This probably means that you don't have permission to talk to the server. Try the following: $ telnet the.nntp.server nntp and see what it says. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."