Re: Sometimes problem when posting to aioe

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> I use the aioe newsserver. Sometimes I get:
>     nntp (news.aioe.org) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)
>
> The only way to keep reading and sending news is to change:
>     (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.aioe.org"))
> to:
>     (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "nntp.aioe.org"))

So news.aioe.org redirects to nntp.aioe.org, but that's sometimes
broken?

> This works with one very important hitch: I lose all my marks.

You should have separated the server name from its address:

  (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "aioe.org"
                              (nntp-address "news.aioe.org")))

Then the server name was aioe.org (and that's important for marks and
stuff), and you could always change the nntp-address.  It'll still be
the same server, and all marks would still work.

But thinking about it, you should be able to use

    (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.aioe.org"
                                (nntp-address "nntp.aioe.org")))

Then your server's still called news.aioe.org, but the address is the
(hopefully) reliable nntp.aioe.org.

Bye,
Tassilo