From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1140 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Petr Swedock Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Fully Qualified Domain Name Date: 13 Sep 2002 11:10:14 -0400 Message-ID: <86znumudrd.fsf@blade-runner.mit.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667951 9968 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:39:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:41 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.infoave.net!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!panix!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!dreaderd!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: BLADE-RUNNER.MIT.EDU Original-X-Trace: 1031929523 senator-bedfellow.mit.edu 3950 18.78.0.22 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1280 Original-Lines: 34 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1280 Tue Jan 17 17:28:41 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1140 Archived-At: Lute Kamstra writes: > Don Saklad writes: > > > At this end it's a at&t broadband cable internet plain text window macssh > > http://www.macssh.com > > to nestle.ai.mit.edu reading email with emacs rmail. > > Ah, so you're running Emacs over an ssh connection. You have an Apple > running OS X at home with a cable connection; you use this setup to > contact nestle.ai.mit.edu using macssh; you run Emacs on > nestle.ai.mit.edu. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) In this scheme, what > really counts is the machine nestle.ai.mit.edu; due to the ssh > connection everything works as if you sat behind that machine. So you > need to find out information about nestle.ai.mit.edu. > > > Trying gnus email might be a better opportunity for managing > > favorite correspondents messages among the spam commercials. > > It is also useful to read news. ;-) Are you already using gnus to > read news? If so, you probably already have a basic .gnus file with > configurations related to Gnus. In what follows, I assume that you > have the following in your .gnus to indicate that you use > "news.ai.mit.edu" as your news server. > > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.ai.mit.edu")) While this certainly resolves, it does not ping and does not serve news. (It used to). Try 'news.lcs.mit.edu' or 'news.mit.edu'. The problem is most likely here. Peace, Petr