From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: News server access from Gnus [was: Re: [OT] Reading Emacs Tutorials] Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:30:27 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87y6v6o4ng.fsf_-_@kobe.laptop> References: <877i2qg5tj.fsf@kobe.laptop> <87bps28xd5.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237153290 17707 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2009 21:41:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:41:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 15 22:42:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Liy6Y-0007Zi-70 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:42:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50032 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Liy5C-00087q-5B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:41:22 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:t/voGgbJYMYOHjOI3SwGLGn71hA= Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.49.245.96 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=2RMW@maTA; eO3d^23S\Y2mYSB=nbEKnkk4mi>jDOWoHgL^MjgbH?lJH1Tkjlc<=PaM; B0bhj\We1lcoEYj Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:167658 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62954 Archived-At: On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:36:15 -0700, prad wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:16:54 +0200 > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> I am using the newsgroup instead of the mailing list, but having a >> bidirectional gateway helps a lot. > > ok so i presume you are using emacs for the newsgroup? i'm going to > try this, once i find out how to get news through our cable company - > when i try news in emacs, i get unable to open nntp:news so i presume > our cable company doesn't offer it. I am using Gnus both for email and Usenet access. My email messages arrive through fetchmail to `~/Mailbox' where Gnus picks them up from and filters them to nnml:* folders through an `nnmail-split-fancy' list of patterns. For Usenet access, I pull a small number of groups through a free NNTP server (news.sunsite.dk). It requires NNTP authentication but anyone is free to register for NNTP access. If your ISP is not actively blocking NNTP access to other sources, you can always register to sunsite.dk and then configure Gnus to use it as one of the message sources. My own setup is: (setq nntp-authinfo-function 'nntp-send-authinfo) (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.sunsite.dk")) (setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnml:posted") For more details for the news server I am using, please take a minute or two to read the instructions at `http://dotsrc.org/usenet/' and, more importantly, the rules of usage at `http://dotsrc.org/usenet/policy/'. There are also other public, freely available servers you can use for news access, like: * Gmane. A bi-directional gateway from many mailing lists to Usenet style groups and vice versa. See `http://gmane.org/post.php'. * Motzarella. A private project providing free access to text-only Usenet News. See `http://news.motzarella.org/'. I'm sure there are several others that I am missing. If you find any and you use them with satisfactory results for some time, please let me know, so I can add them to the list of public news servers I recommend to anyone who asks :-)