Re: OT: gmane seems to be back

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Nexgo.DE> writes:

> Am 30.10.2018 um 16:57 schrieb Nick Dokos:
>> For a couple of weeks, I had not been able to connect to gmane, so I
>> finally gave up and changed my preferences so that I could receive the
>> email from the list.  I have not seen any acknowledgement anywhere
>> that it was down BTW - did anybody here notice? Or was it just me?
>
> Plain NNTP wasn't down at all, but connections that use TLS stopped
> working some time ago and probably still don't work.

I have this in my .gnus.el:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq gnus-select-method
	     '(nntp "news.gmane.org"
		     (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-tls-stream)
		     (nntp-port-number 563)
		     ;; (nntp-port-number 119)
		     (nnir-search-engine gmane)
		     ))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and that works now, but did not work for a while earlier in the month
(or perhaps longer).  IIUC what you said, port 119 with some other
setting (nntp-open-network-stream perhaps, or nntp-open-plain-stream)
for the connection function would have worked during this time? I'll
have to remember that for next time...

Thanks!
-- 
Nick

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