Hi,
If your are using news:// protocol/dialect (described in the how-to
http://www.rebol.com/howto.html#news.html) rather the built in nntp://
protocol (described in the manual http://www.rebol.com/users/netnntp.html)
You need to do the %nntp.r file..
do %nntp.r
Cheers,
Allen K
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Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 11:15 PM
Subject: [REBOL] newsgroups
> WITH THE FOLLOWING SCRIPT...
>
> REBOL []
>
> secure none
>
> print "security level set to none"
>
> nntp-host: news://news.uswest.net
> np: open nntp-host
>
> print "news host opened"
>
> write/append %BeAdvocacyMessages.txt insert np [headers-bodies from
> "comp.sys.be.advocacy"]
>
> print "messages retrieved"
>
>
> I GET THE FOLLOWING ERROR...
>
> ** Access Error: Invalid port spec: news://news.uswest.net.
> ** Where: np: open nntp-host
> print "news host opened"
>
>
> WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? THANKS.
>
>
