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- From: rdong@PLAYMATE.MAT.JHU.EDU (Rui-Tao Dong ~~{6-HpLN~~})
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
- Subject: Re: NNTP server(Q)
- Message-ID: <RDONG.92Sep15143158@chow.mat.jhu.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 19:31:58 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Distribution: gnu.emacs.gnus
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University.
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- In article <SPENO.92Sep14232645@clam.rutgers.edu> speno@clam.rutgers.edu (John P. Speno) writes:
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- > First I'd like to know what a NNTP server is and what it does and how
- > it differs from a 'spool'. Knowing these things might help with my
- > next problem which is this. I use GNUS 3.14.1 and I love it. However,
- > I'm the only student around here that does so it isn't supported at
- > all. I can use GNUS on one of our machines that happens to be the
- > machine which mounts our news server up in New Bruswich( clam mounts
- > bobwebber for those of you keeping score). This is done with nfs I'd
- > assume. Clam also serves as a nfs file sharer to a host of sparc
- > stations on campus and I want to use gnus from those machines. I've
- > set NNTPSERVER and setq gnus-nntp-service but still, when I run GNUS
- > on a machine other than clam, I'll see the message Host:
- > "clam.rutgers.edu" not responding. I'd appreciate any help you can
- > give me so that once I get it running everywhere, I can enlighten the
- > others.
-
- The following will do your trick.
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- (setq gnus-nntp-server (system-name))
- (setq gnus-nntp-service nil)
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- My situation is even worse. Our university news machine doesn't
- offer NNTP access to other campus computers. I have to use `Ange-ftp' to
- access its newsspool.
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- (setq nnspool-spool-directory "/NNTPserver:/usr/spool/news")
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- Regards,
-
- Rui-Tao Dong ~~{6-HpLN~~} Department of Mathematics
- rdong@playmate.mat.jhu.edu The Johns Hopkins University
- (410)516-7406(O) (410)516-5549(Fax) Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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