What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

[thesak]

What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for
Esc-x gnus

Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

thesak <don.saklad@gmail.com> writes:

> What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for
> Esc-x gnus

The ^ key from the group buffer seems to take me to the server buffer
which has the servers enumerated in it.

-- Mark

Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

[thesak]

What key is that?... the upper case of the 6 key?, the command key?

On Jun 18, 9:19 am, m...@ixod.org (Mark T.B. Carroll) wrote:
> thesak <don.sak...@gmail.com> writes:
> > What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for
> > Esc-x gnus
>
> The ^ key from the group buffer seems to take me to the server buffer
> which has the servers enumerated in it.
>
> -- Mark

Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

thesak <don.saklad@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 18, 9:19 am, m...@ixod.org (Mark T.B. Carroll) wrote:
>> thesak <don.sak...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for
>> > Esc-x gnus
>>
>> The ^ key from the group buffer seems to take me to the server buffer
>> which has the servers enumerated in it.
>
> What key is that?... the upper case of the 6 key?, the command key?

Er, whatever key makes a '^'. It depends on your keyboard layout. On
mine I do indeed press shift-6 to get it, but YMMV. Couldn't you have
just tried it? I'm sorry if I'm missing something here.

-- Mark

Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

[Don Saklad]

Here's the result of a tap of the ^ key...
     
     >      {nnfolder:archive} (closed)
     >      {nntp:news} (opened)

Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

[Mark T.B. Carroll]

Don Saklad <dsaklad@nestle.csail.mit.edu> writes:

>      >      {nnfolder:archive} (closed)
>      >      {nntp:news} (opened)

Wow, that's unhelpful. (I seem to have named mine rather better, but
didn't realise I'd done so manually!) I'm surprised that none of the
'Server' menu options seem helpful - at least, none of mine will even
reveal the hostname of the server! The server buffer seems to be less
helpful than I'd first thought; sorry. ):

Maybe netstat could help? (-:

-- Mark

Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:07:42 -0700, thesak wrote:

> What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for
> Esc-x gnus

^ in the *Group* buffer takes you to the *Server* buffer.

If you look in the manual, the second node - after "Starting Gnus" - is
about how to make Gnus get news:

 <http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_2.html#SEC2>


  Best regards,

     Adam

-- 
 "Money always takes the place of life"                       Adam Sjøgren
                                                         asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

[thesak]

Thank you folks!

Regrettably, what servers would be best to use from fencepost.gnu.org
and what to insert in the expression
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.somewhere.edu"))
isn't clear.

Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus

[Joel Reicher]

thesak <don.saklad@gmail.com> writes:

> Regrettably, what servers would be best to use from fencepost.gnu.org
> and what to insert in the expression
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.somewhere.edu"))
> isn't clear.

Any newsserver you have access to will work, assuming outgoing nntp
connections from fencepost.gnu.org aren't blocked.

You might need to ask somewhere else to get newsserver
suggestions. This newsgroup is specifically for Gnus, the software,
not for reading news in general.

Cheers,

        - Joel