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From: Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What commands are there to determine what news server is used?... for Esc-x gnus
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:01:43 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rnabuvuk9k.fsf@succubus.panacea.null.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182183875.192917.69300@d30g2000prg.googlegroups.com>

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

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-20  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-18 12:07 thesak
2007-06-18 13:19 ` Mark T.B. Carroll
2007-06-18 13:25   ` thesak
2007-06-18 13:45     ` Mark T.B. Carroll
2007-06-18 14:28       ` Don Saklad
2007-06-18 15:26         ` Mark T.B. Carroll
2007-06-18 13:48 ` Adam Sjøgren
2007-06-18 16:24   ` thesak
2007-06-20  8:01     ` Joel Reicher [this message]

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