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Re: LuserNET Preferences setting
From: |
Patrick Cardona |
Subject: |
Re: LuserNET Preferences setting |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Jun 2020 00:10:05 +0200 |
User-agent: |
GNUMail (Version 1.3.0) |
Hi Riccardo,
Great ! I got the list from the news server news.free.fr (my French provider).
I will use LuserNET only for reading old posts and go on posting new messages
with GNUMail.
I am not enough expert to propose patches: I need first to understand and learn
many things.
Maybe in a few months... ;-)
--
Bien cordialement,
Patrick CARDONA
On 2020-06-03 18:12:09 +0200 Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>
wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
>
> Patrick Cardona wrote:
>
>> I would like to browse the list archive within LuserNET, because I
>> think it would be lighter than within a Web browser.
>
>> I tried to configure LuserNET :
>> - host: gnu.gnustep
>> - group name : discuss
>> - port : 119 | 563 | 443
>
>> Tried also to prepend or not : news: either news:// prefix protocol
>> before the hostname...
>
>> But #l told Me that the request failed at every attempt.
>
>> Is anyone knowing the right way to configure LuserNet to read the
>> archived lis
>
>
> You need a "news server"... gnu.gnustep cannot be a valid news server.
> Maybe your provider has one, that would be best. Mine stopped providing
> that service.
>
> Else, there remain a few "free" ones...
>
> Then you need to add the group directly "gnu.gnustep.discuss", add the
> last message available since probably your server will have only the
> "last ones".
>
> Then add, updae.. and voiĆ . I see e.g. gnu.discuss.org is there.
> The newsgroup is actually done through a Mail-gateway of the
> MailingList, so the Threads sometimes contain spurious messages or
> threads break...
>
> I looked at this months ago and LuserNET was doing the legitimate thing
> (you can use latest Pantomime Release and latest LuserNET for best
> results....) patches accepted of course!
>
> I just tried... an found out I cannot post/reply correctly...
> unfortunate. I'll see if i can debug that, but patches and help
> welcome... I really maintained only very little since "saving" it in GAP.
> I kept it up-to-date with latest pantomime changes and fixed some gross
> "bit rotting", but apparently some more stuff crept in.
>
> Riccardo
>