On Tue, Feb 26 2008, notbob wrote:
> notbob wrote:
>> Howdy. emacs noob, here.
>>
>> I'm occasionally stuck using a suck XP box instead of my beloved Slackware.
>> Being a CLI freak, I d/l'd emacs to use gnus. But, so far no joy. I ran
>> runemacs.exe and even addpm.exe. I also created a C:\.emacs and C:\.gnus
>> file. In .gnus, I put:
>> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "us.Usenet-News.net"))
> nntp (news) open error: ''. Continue? (y or n)
> Couldn't open server on news
>
> IOW, this install is not even promting me for a server like emacs 21 in
> Slackware does.
The default is to use "news". (I don't know how it was in Emacs 21
i.e. Gnus 5.9)
Additional to ~/.gnus.el, ...
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "us.usenet-news.net"))
... add this to ~/.authinfo:
machine us.usenet-news.net login YOUR_NAME force yes
See (info "(gnus)NNTP") for more information on ~/.authinfo.
You may also test using `gnus-group-browse-foreign-server':
B nntp RET us.usenet-news.net RET
Bye, Reiner.
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