From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT: gmane seems to be back
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:42:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muqut0tt.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efc6xa9d.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:05:02 +0100")
>>>>> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
>>>>>>> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Nexgo.DE> writes: >> Am 30.10.2018 um
>> 16:57 schrieb Nick Dokos: >>> For a couple of weeks, I had not
>> been able to connect to gmane, >>> so I finally gave up and
>> changed my preferences so that I could >>> receive the email from
>> the list. I have not seen any >>> acknowledgement anywhere that
>> it was down BTW - did anybody here >>> notice? Or was it just me?
>> >>
>> >> Plain NNTP wasn't down at all, but connections that use TLS >>
>> stopped working some time ago and probably still don't work.
>>
>> > I have this in my .gnus.el:
>>
>> > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org" >
>> (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream) >
>> (nntp-port-number 563) ;; (nntp-port-number 119) >
>> (nnir-search-engine gmane) ))
>>
>> My gnus works fine (always has) with just the first line. The
>> nntp-open-tls-stream and port-numbers appear not to be
>> required. And I thought gmane.org was could no longer be searched
>> with nnir.
> If you do that then you connect to port 119 using cleartext and
> the connection is (potentially) upgraded using STARTTLS. Thatʼs
> not the same as making a TLS connection to port 563. Whether this
> matters for reading news is entirely a personal decision.
I did not know this so many thanks for the information.
> The gmane search interface is sadly indeed defunct.
Shame :-(
Best wishes,
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-31 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-30 15:57 OT: gmane seems to be back Nick Dokos
2018-10-31 7:36 ` Achim Gratz
2018-10-31 13:50 ` Nick Dokos
2018-10-31 17:32 ` Colin Baxter
2018-10-31 18:05 ` Robert Pluim
2018-10-31 18:42 ` Colin Baxter [this message]
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