Hi Riccardo, Great ! I got the list from the news server news.free.fr (my French provider).
I will use LuserNET only for reading old posts and go on posting new messages with GNUMail. I am not enough expert to propose patches: I need first to understand and learn many things. Maybe in a few months... ;-) -- Bien cordialement, Patrick CARDONA On 2020-06-03 18:12:09 +0200 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > > Patrick Cardona wrote: > >> I would like to browse the list archive within LuserNET, because I >> think it would be lighter than within a Web browser. > >> I tried to configure LuserNET : >> - host: gnu.gnustep >> - group name : discuss >> - port : 119 | 563 | 443 > >> Tried also to prepend or not : news: either news:// prefix protocol >> before the hostname... > >> But #l told Me that the request failed at every attempt. > >> Is anyone knowing the right way to configure LuserNet to read the >> archived lis > > > You need a "news server"... gnu.gnustep cannot be a valid news server. > Maybe your provider has one, that would be best. Mine stopped providing > that service. > > Else, there remain a few "free" ones... > > Then you need to add the group directly "gnu.gnustep.discuss", add the > last message available since probably your server will have only the > "last ones". > > Then add, updae.. and voià. I see e.g. gnu.discuss.org is there. > The newsgroup is actually done through a Mail-gateway of the > MailingList, so the Threads sometimes contain spurious messages or > threads break... > > I looked at this months ago and LuserNET was doing the legitimate thing > (you can use latest Pantomime Release and latest LuserNET for best > results....) patches accepted of course! > > I just tried... an found out I cannot post/reply correctly... > unfortunate. I'll see if i can debug that, but patches and help > welcome... I really maintained only very little since "saving" it in GAP. > I kept it up-to-date with latest pantomime changes and fixed some gross > "bit rotting", but apparently some more stuff crept in. > > Riccardo >
