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Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > I'm trying to use leafnode to access my university's nntphost, which > requires authentication. It appears to connect okay, but it doesn't > ever fetch any articles: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/spool/news/interesting.groups] # fetchnews -vvv > 1.9.9: verbosity level is 3 > [snip irrelevancy] > Trying to connect to news.pair.com ... connected. > Getting new newsgroups from news.pair.com > [snip irrelevancy] > Disconnected from news.pair.com. > Trying to connect to nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk ... connected. > Getting new newsgroups from nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk > Read server info from > /var/spool/news/leaf.node/nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk > comp.unix.shell: considering articles 80403-81561 > uk.forsale: considering articles 30251-60240 > strath.cs.forsale: considering articles 4-12 > pair.future: considering articles 3-221 > > Bizarrely, nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk only carries strath.*, not > comp.unix.shell, uk.forsale or pair.future (the latter being a > pair.com-only newsgroup!) and I've got interesting.newsgroups/ files > for many more strath.* newsgroups than strath.cs.forsale, but they're > never mentioned by fetchnews. > > The other two news servers I'm using work perfectly well (the pair.com > one requires authentication too), and I can use slrn to directly > access the nntphost.cs.strath.ac.uk one (so my password isn't > incorrect). But I still can't get fetchnews to download articles from > the university server. > > Can anyone help me find what I'm doing wrong? What sort of thing > should I be looking for? > -- > alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
