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Shenli

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Oct 19, 2009, 10:56:43 AM10/19/09
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Hi all,

I have used Emacs for several month, love it and try to use it as a
mail/news
client.

After set gnus-select-method(is it the minimal setting option?) by
custom-set-variables
'(gnus-select-method (quote (nntp "gnu.emacs.bug")))

I try to link to the news server, but Emacs give out error as below.

"Unable to open server nntp+gnu.emacs.bug, go offline?
nntp (gnu.emacs.bug) open error: '', Continue?"

My environment is WinXP and Emacs23.1.
Any suggestion is welcome!

Thanks,
Shenli

Adam Sjøgren

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Oct 19, 2009, 11:19:38 AM10/19/09
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:56:43 -0700 (PDT), Shenli wrote:

> '(gnus-select-method (quote (nntp "gnu.emacs.bug")))

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You should put the hostname of your news server there, not the name of a
newsgroup.

> Any suggestion is welcome!

Figure out what the hostname of your news server is, and replace
"gnu.emacs.bug" with the hostname.

There are various free news servers you can use, if you don't have one
at your ISP or similar - you can read more about one of them here:
http://dotsrc.org/usenet/ (you will need to register, to use it,
though.)


Best regards,

Adam

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Richard Riley

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Oct 19, 2009, 11:25:06 AM10/19/09
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Shenli <zhus...@gmail.com> writes:

gnu.emacs.bug is not an nntp server afaik ... more likely it is a group.

You can sign up for a free nntp server account here:

http://www.eternal-september.org

then add it to your select methods with

,----
| (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
| '(nntp "motzarella"
| (nntp-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo.gpg")
| (nntp-address "news.eternal-september.org")
| (nntp-port-number 119)
| )
| )
`----

regards

r.


Ted Zlatanov

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Oct 20, 2009, 1:24:09 PM10/20/09
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Shenli <zhus...@gmail.com> wrote:

S> After set gnus-select-method(is it the minimal setting option?) by
S> custom-set-variables
S> '(gnus-select-method (quote (nntp "gnu.emacs.bug")))

S> I try to link to the news server, but Emacs give out error as below.

S> "Unable to open server nntp+gnu.emacs.bug, go offline?
S> nntp (gnu.emacs.bug) open error: '', Continue?"

The minimal setting would be to use the nnml backend since it doesn't
open any network connections. Some people prefer to use the nnnil
backend, which is even simpler but won't allow you to do anything inside
it, so you'll need secondary or foreign servers for everything.

Ted

dhg::Newsfork

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Oct 21, 2009, 12:29:49 PM10/21/09
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try to use 'news.cn99.com', which is a newsgroup server located in
China.

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(dhg) darcsis AT gmail dot COM

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