eho@cognito.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) (09/01/89)
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 -- I've tried many newsgroups and I haven't been able to read anything at all even though I can established all the connections and everything looked fine when I do 'C-u M-x gnus uunet.uu.net'. Does anyone got any pointers on that ? Could it be that the remote site need to set something on their nntpd daemons ? -- Eric Ho Cognitive Science Lab., Princeton University voice = 609-987-2987 email = eho@confidence.princeton.edu 609-987-2819 (messages) eho@bogey.princeton.edu regards. -eric-
karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (09/01/89)
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." --Lewisgrunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (09/02/89)
I had the same problem, and then figured it out when I tried to use ``xrn'', which told me that I didn't have access to that site. Perhaps the error message from Gnus could be a little more clear when this happens.