From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9182 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William F Hammond Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How do you select a server?... for gnus Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:49:21 -0400 Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, Univ at Albany (SUNY), Albany, NY Message-ID: References: <1181851523.164900.42010@n15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181982080 4701 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 08:21:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:21:20 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 10:21:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HzTX3-0007dV-Mo for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:21:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzTX2-0004Wp-Rf for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:21:16 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!tethys.csu.net!nntp.csufresno.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/Z0n8KIMsTDuupx4079NEwSqMJk= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 12 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79364 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:21:14 -0400 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9182 Archived-At: thesak writes: > Asking this question is difficult because it's not clear what isn't > clear! Anyway, from fencepost.gnu.org attempting to run gnus didn't > work. It might have something to do with the server. How do you select > a server? At this point there's no .newsrc file. Use "dig" to look for a host named "news" in the domain of fencepost.gnu.org. The domain seems to be "gnu.org".