On 22.06.02 22:53, Brian Heinrich Replied As Follows: --- Original Message ---
> On 23 Jun 2002 03:28:14 GMT, it is alleged that Bruno Walter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> swaggered in to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news > and announced: > >>On 23 Jun 2002, Brian Heinrich was seen to have posted this wee note into >>netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news, to which I have responded as follows: >> >>> I've got a short-cut to it sitting on my desktop. >>> >>> Man, I've gotta get this proxy thing sorted out. >> >>Why? >> >>If Mozilla can read your NGs then so can Xnews. > > Er, no; not in this case: I want to access snews://secnews.netscape.net:563 -- > someone's gotta give David a hand in his NG gleaning before his mind snaps -- , > and while I can get NewsProxy to make the contact (in both Agent and Xnews), the > operation keeps timing out. > > If I can get a working proxy in place, Xnews definitely becomes a viable option. > > I could always see if maybe OE doesn't make a decent NG reader, but I've already > encountered problems w/ it (/e.g./, stupid limitations on header download). No > objections to Moz as a newsreader, but it's already handling my e-mail, so > things can get to be a bit unweildy (recall that I'm on ADSL). > > Well, we'll see. . . . > > - B. > >>Bruno Walter > Have you tried an SSL Wrapper such as "stunnel" ?? http://www.stunnel.org or does that not work in a proxy situation? -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org ** Post To Group ONLY, do NOT email **
