Subject: Re: USENET via Pine 3.91...

From: [email-masked] (Barry Bouwsma)
Date: 4 Dec 1995 23:42:41 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Jim McConnell) says:

>public access NNTP server.

    There ain't no such thing.  Nearly all NNTP servers only permit
access to hosts within their own domain.

>nntp-server=gaia.ucs.orst.edu
>news-collections=*[]

    Leave the second entry empty, so long as the first is defined.

>news-collections=*{gaia.ucs.orst.edu/nntp}[]  we get an error saying we 
>are not allowed to access this site.  Do we have to be put on a list to 
>access this site

    The message you are seeing is what you will see if you telnet to
port 119 (the NNTP port) on the server:
502 You are not in my access file.  Goodbye.

    Yes, if you need to read from this site, you have to be added to the
list.  Unless you have some agreement with this site, do not expect it
to happen.  See if you can find a local service provider to give you
news service from their news server.

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From: [email-masked] (Abhishek Chandan)
Date: 4 Dec 1995 23:54:08 GMT

I am facing the same problem.

Abhishek
Jim McConnell ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Recently, I was asked to help setup someone's news through Pine 3.91. 
: Unfortunatley, he has no direct newsfeed, so he is trying to access a 
: public access NNTP server.  This is what we have in .pinerc:

: nntp-server=gaia.ucs.orst.edu
: ...
: news-collections=*[]

: This gives a list of newsgroups, but they are unreadable.  When 
: news-collections=*{gaia.ucs.orst.edu/nntp}[]  we get an error saying we 
: are not allowed to access this site.  Do we have to be put on a list to 
: access this site, or do we have the setup in pine incorrect?  If the 
: setup is correct, and we don't need special permission to use the site as 
: a newsfeed, what is wrong?  I seriously think that we need permission to 
: access the site as a feed, but my mail there has gone unanswered.  Help!

:   Jim McConnell                                        [email-masked]
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