From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5219 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pp@pfawww.pp.se (Per Persson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Connecting to a newsserver with nntp. Date: 22 Feb 1996 08:54:21 +0100 Organization: People's Front Against WWW Sender: pp@ojnk.bahnhof.se Message-ID: References: <9602211956.AA09060@tito.cygnus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145856 32186 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:30:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:30:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no 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 AAA24964 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:30:52 -0800 Original-Received: from ojnk.bahnhof.se (ojnk.bahnhof.se [193.44.91.7]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:53:26 +0100 Original-Received: (from pp@localhost) by ojnk.bahnhof.se (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA02330; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 08:54:29 +0100 Original-To: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) In-Reply-To: larsi@ifi.uio.no's message of 22 Feb 1996 02:12:53 +0100 Original-Lines: 16 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5219 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5219 larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) writes: >ROTFL! I'm tempted to put this in the manual somewhere... :-) Strange things happens when your newsserver is down and you have to resort to your mailinglists for fun. O:-) >Anyways, pinging the machine before attempting to connect to it might >be a good idea. If this is done by other packages, could somebody >send me example code? ffap.el which comes with 19.30 does this and has some variables for it, it's pretty much spread out so I guess you have to poke around in it a little yuorself. :-) /pp.