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From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Gnus open error?
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:42:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hbi4t1$sq8$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877hurz6ly.fsf@fh-trier.de

Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:

> Shenli <zhushenli@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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!
>
> As Richard pointed out, this is a news-group not a server.  Gmane is a
> free server, which can be used w/o registrations.
>
> (setq gnus-select-method
>       '(nntp "Gmane"
>              (nntp-address "news.gmane.org")))

oh cool! I didn't know that gmane was a news server too .. 

(lets see if this posts!)

>
> Here is something to get you started.
>
> ;; start gnus
> M-x gnus RET
> ;; Group buffer -> Server buffer
> ^
> ;; move point to news.gmane.org and press
> RET
> ;; search gmane.emacs.bugs and press 
> u
> ;; quit server buffer
> qq
> ;; update Group buffer
> g
> ;; move point to news.gmane.org
> ;; read last 1000 articles
> C-u 1000 RET
>
> -ap
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shenli
>

-- 





  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-19 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-19 14:56 Emacs Gnus open error? Shenli
2009-10-19 15:25 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-19 16:33 ` Andreas Politz
2009-10-19 16:42   ` Richard Riley [this message]
2009-10-20 17:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-10-21 16:29 ` dhg::Newsfork

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