pine and gnus clash

pine and gnus clash

[John J. Lee]

Has anybody seen this before, or care to hazard a guess as to what the
problem is:

If I use pine (even *without* reading any news) while emacs is
running, then try to use gnus to read news, gnus is unable to connect
to my news server:

nntp (news.freeserve.net) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)


Even if I quit pine, gnus still behaves the same way -- I have to quit
pine *and* emacs, then restart emacs (but not pine) and start gnus.

Rather annoying.  Anybody have a clue what's going on?

(BTW, you probably won't be able to connect to news.freeserve.net if
you're not a customer of freeserve)


John

Re: pine and gnus clash

[Kai Großjohann]

jjl@pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:

> Well, if I do C R O in the server buffer on news.freeserve.net, the O
> just causes its state to go back to denied again, *with no network
> traffic*!  I thought O was an explicit request to actually try to
> establish a connection?

That's what I thought, too.  Weird.
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