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- Path: sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!resa.afrc.ac.uk!caiger
- From: caiger@resa.afrc.ac.uk (Andy Caiger)
- Subject: Re: finding a server on Internet
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.102534.1@resa.afrc.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@math.fu-berlin.de (Math Department)
- Organization: Institute of Arable Crops Research
- References: <1993Jan19.124522.1@resa.afrc.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:25:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.124522.1@resa.afrc.ac.uk>, caiger@resa.afrc.ac.uk (Andy Caiger) writes:
- > Hi there !
- >
- > I've been trying out various news readers on various systems, but my attempt at
- > getting GNUS to work failed. It seemed the problem was that it expected the
- > NNTP server to be on the local network, whereas the only way to access the news
- > feeder was via the Internet. Have I understood this correctly ? Is there any
- > way round it ?
-
- Thank you all those who mailed me. I think I did misunderstand the problem. It
- still doesn't work - the only reason I can think of is that because our system
- doesn't have a nameserver I had to use the Internet number of the NNTP server,
- rather than its name. Does this make a difference ?
-
- Andy
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