Subject: Using pine with a remote nntpserver

From: Ian Russell Ollmann <iano@wong>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 21:22:04 -0800

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but two of us have now had (a little)
trouble using pine with a non-local nntpserver. If, for example, you should
want to read your news from the the non-local nntpserver
another.computer.com, if you simply add the following stuff to your .pinerc: 

	news-collections=News *{another.computer.com/nntp}[] 
	nntp-server=another.computer.com

then you get an error message that says

	another.computer.com: Connection refused, 143.

If, however, you use the ip number of another.computer.com (1.2.3.4) 
rather than "another.computer.com", then it works:

        news-collections=News *{1.2.3.4/nntp}[]
        nntp-server=1.2.3.4

I don't really know if this is a bug in pine or the same bug in two 
completely different systems (scripps.edu and callnet.com) to two 
completely different nntpservers. Does anyone from Pine-development care 
to speculate?

				Ian

P.S. I love pine more and more everyday. I just saw Z-mail and I like 
	pine better.

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From: [email-masked] (Wet-Sprocket)
Date: 18 Feb 1995 02:17:52 GMT

Comes here Mr. Ian Russell Ollmann with this opinion in the "comp.mail.pine"
group in this article on Tue, 14 Feb 1995 21:22:04 -0800:

 + 	news-collections=News *{another.computer.com/nntp}[] 
 + 	nntp-server=another.computer.com

You don't need to specify news-collections option. Just set your
nntp-server option, and try again.

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