Subject: Re: Can't Find .newsrc

From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 31 Dec 1994 03:56:14 GMT

Comes here Mr. Pete Holsberg with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" group in this article on Thu, 22 Dec 1994 17:47:03 GMT:

 +   =	News *{tecoma.mccc.edu}[]
 +   =	can't connect to tecoma, 143
 +   =	conenction refused
 +   =Is that an imapd problem???

On the other hand it could be a /etc/hosts problem on the tecoma.mccc.edu
machine. Would it be possible that that nntp-server is denying news-reading
access to the Unix-ware machine?

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From: Ian Russell Ollmann <iano@wong>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 23:03:39 -0800

I had a similar problem with reading news from pine3.91. It turned out 
that if I put the IP number for the news server rather than it's name, 
(i.e. News *{198.133.170.1}[] rather than News *{tecoma.mccc.edu}[]) that 
it suddenly, inexplicably worked. Don't ask me why.

				Ian 

The same was true for setting the environment variable NNTPSERVER for use 
by xrn, so maybe it was just a problem with the local setup.

On 31 Dec 1994, Wet-Sprocket wrote:

; Comes here Mr. Pete Holsberg with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine" 
; group in this article on Thu, 22 Dec 1994 17:47:03 GMT: > 
;  +   =	News *{tecoma.mccc.edu}[]
;  +   =	can't connect to tecoma, 143
;  +   =	conenction refused
;  +   =Is that an imapd problem???
; 
; On the other hand it could be a /etc/hosts problem on the tecoma.mccc.edu
; machine. Would it be possible that that nntp-server is denying news-reading
; access to the Unix-ware machine?
; 
; --