Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Subject: Re: gnus to other internet sites. Message-ID: Date: 1 Sep 89 13:36:32 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: OSU Lines: 20 In-reply-to: eho@cognito.Princeton.EDU's message of 1 Sep 89 05:20:55 GMT eho@cognito.princeton.edu writes: Whenever I tried to gnus to other Internet sites (e.g. uunet.uu.net), I can get there ok and everything seems fine at first and when I try to read from the newsgroups I always get this "No such article ..." and then followed by "Checking bogus newsgroup ..." messages In general, you can't NNTP out to any random host on the Internet to read news. Your system must be known to the NNTP-serving host (in its nntp_access file, for the usual BSD UNIX implementation). For very good reasons, such as not being badly swamped by random folks all over the Internet, most NNTP servers do not allow many NNTP readers. We allow only one or two, for example, and those are all OSU-internal sites that haven't got the disc space for news. The fact that uunet doesn't allow you to read news is routine and to be expected. -- Karl "We make men without [sentiment] and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." --Lewis