nntp open error: ''?

nntp open error: ''?

[John J Lee]

M-x gnus gives me this message in the minibuffer:

nntp (news.freeserve.net) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)

my ~/.gnus contains:

(setq user-mail-address "jjl@pobox.com")
(setq user-full-name "John J. Lee")
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.freeserve.net"))

Pine uses that same server, with no problems.

Any clues?


John

Re: nntp open error: ''?

[Marco Parrone]

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John J Lee <jjl@pobox.com> writes:

> M-x gnus gives me this message in the minibuffer:
> 
> nntp (news.freeserve.net) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)
> 
> my ~/.gnus contains:
> 
> (setq user-mail-address "jjl@pobox.com")
> (setq user-full-name "John J. Lee")
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.freeserve.net"))
> 
> Pine uses that same server, with no problems.

I've tried your code with another server and it works.

I've tried with your server, but it does not work:

  Unable to contact server news.freeserve.net: Server closed connection

You can try with another server, "210.221.55.119" for example.
You can find some other news servers searching "free nntp server" with
google or at http://www.newzbot.com.

Bye

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Re: nntp open error: ''?

[John J Lee]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Marco Parrone wrote:
[...]
> John J Lee <jjl@pobox.com> writes:
[...]
> I've tried your code with another server and it works.

Hmm, yes works for me too with your server.

So why does pine work fine with my server, and gnus not (debian package
21.2-2)?  I'm pretty sure I've successfully used that server with gnus
before, on emacs 21.1 on Windows NT.


> I've tried with your server, but it does not work:
>
>   Unable to contact server news.freeserve.net: Server closed connection

That's no surprise: you need to be a dialup customer of freeserve to
connect to it (in fact, you probably need to be actually connected via
freeserve dialup to use it).  As I say, it works at least enough for pine
to connect to it.

Thanks for your help


John