From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Gnus open error? Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:42:07 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <877hurz6ly.fsf@fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255971381 1993 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2009 16:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:56:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 19 18:56:11 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 1MzvWh-0001Uf-Ab for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:56:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54257 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MzvWg-0006rB-VG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:56:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MzvWJ-0006qx-LX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MzvWE-0006qM-3c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:55:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49634 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MzvWE-0006qJ-09 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53237) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MzvWD-0005Vt-DE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:55:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MzvVg-0000v8-ND for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:55:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 60 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:69088 Archived-At: Andreas Politz writes: > Shenli 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 > --