Re: LYNX-DEV news: handling

[Klaus Weide]

On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 address@hidden wrote:

> I just got a report from a fellow Lynx user that news: stopped working
> for him.  It used to be that he could Go to a URL like "news:comp.risks";
> get a list of articles, hit enter on one, and read it.  Just recently,
> however, that stopped working.  The list of articles comes up, but 
> selecting one gives a message: "Alert! 430 No such article".  The href
> on each item is of the form 
>     news://news.host.com/address@hidden
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Should that really have another host name at the end?

Yes.  That's a Message-ID.

So is the message available from the server?  Start with
    "telnet news.host.com 119".

What it maybe shouldn't have is the //news.host.com/ part.

> (I don't know what
> the hrefs looked like when it was working, unfortunately.)
> 
> Is this something that could have been caused by a change in the news
> server configuration?  What else might the problem be?  It's the same lynx
> that's been in for a while,

... and you're keeping it a secret what version that would be...

> though I suppose it's possible that the last
> time it worked was longer ago than he thought.  Pine and Netscape are
> both working ok still; it's just Lynx that has a problem.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.

       lynx -trace


   Klaus

;
; To UNSUBSCRIBE:  Send a mail message to address@hidden
;                  with "unsubscribe lynx-dev" (without the
;                  quotation marks) on a line by itself.
;