posting to a foreign server

posting to a foreign server

[Jack Vinson]

Hey Gang,

I have been reading the microsoft.public.* newsgroups directly from
msnews.microsoft.com as a foreign server instead of from my main news
server.  (Our regular news server isn't terribly reliable - I figure I will
actually get more of the messages if I read on Microsoft.)  

The groups I am interested appear on my native group list as well as on
this foreign group.  How do I ensure that I am /posting/ to the foreign
group as well as reading from it?  When I do gnus-summary-post-news within
the foreign group, the Newsgroups header simply contains the newsgroup name
and nothing about the foreign-ness of the group.

The simple guess at doing nttp+msnews.microsoft.com:group.name in the
Newsgroups header did not work.

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Re: posting to a foreign server

[Paul Stevenson]

Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> writes:

> The groups I am interested appear on my native group list as well as on
> this foreign group.  How do I ensure that I am /posting/ to the foreign
> group as well as reading from it? 

C-u C-c C-c

Re: posting to a foreign server

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> writes:
> How do I ensure that I am /posting/ to the foreign
> group as well as reading from it?

(setq gnus-post-method 'current)

Re: posting to a foreign server

[Wes Hardaker]

>>>>> On 11 Jun 1999 16:02:40 -0500, Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> said:

Jack> I have been reading the microsoft.public.* newsgroups directly
Jack> from msnews.microsoft.com as a foreign server instead of from my
Jack> main news server.  (Our regular news server isn't terribly
Jack> reliable - I figure I will actually get more of the messages if
Jack> I read on Microsoft.)

For me, that'd be a good reason to read it on the local server...

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Re: posting to a foreign server

[Jack Vinson]

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>>>>> "KK" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

KK> Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> writes:
>> How do I ensure that I am /posting/ to the foreign
>> group as well as reading from it?

KK> (setq gnus-post-method 'current)

This did the trick!  Thanks.  

I did notice some strange behavior though.  The first time I tried it, I
got an error from a call to (gnus-open-server (quote current)).  When I
tried to step through this to see if it would give me this problem again,
it went away.  

Drat!  It just happened again.  Here is the backtrace:

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Signaling: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "quote")
  require(quote)
  gnus-get-function((quote current) open-server)
  gnus-open-server((quote current))
  byte-code("snip snip")
  message-send-news(nil)
  message-send-via-news(nil)
  message-send(nil)
  message-send-and-exit(nil)
  call-interactively(message-send-and-exit)

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Re: posting to a foreign server

[Jack Vinson]

It looks like I need to do both

(setq gnus-post-method 'current)

and 
C-u C-c C-c 

when I post to get the message to be posted to the foreign server.
Curious.

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Re: posting to a foreign server

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jack Vinson <jvinson@chevax.ecs.umass.edu> writes:

> I did notice some strange behavior though.  The first time I tried it, I
> got an error from a call to (gnus-open-server (quote current)).  When I
> tried to step through this to see if it would give me this problem again,
> it went away.  
> 
> Drat!  It just happened again.  Here is the backtrace:
> Signaling: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "quote")
>   require(quote)
>   gnus-get-function((quote current) open-server)
>   gnus-open-server((quote current))
>   byte-code("snip snip")
>   message-send-news(nil)

This shouldn't happen -- `message-post-method' should be initialized
in `gnus-inews-add-send-actions'.  What is the value of this variable
for you in message buffers?

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