🚀 go-pugleaf

In article  <6r7h7tFg16ulU1@mid.individual.net>
           dump@damen.co.ku "Colin May" writes:

> SUCCESS!
> 
> I do not know what I was doing wrong; but after  re-doing  the whole set up
> from scratch,   it works. The news is flowing - Hooray!
> 
> Many, many thanks for your help.

Looks like you did it all yourself :-)  But good to hear that 
you're back in business again.

> Season's Greetings
> 
> Colin
[..]
> The version of snews I am running is 1.30.  Could this have anything to do
> with the connection problems with the news servers?

Not with the connection -- as you have seen -- but if NIN doesn't 
have a mail2news gateway, you will need a way to do direct 
posting.  Your snews 1.30 will put outgoing news into ~/mqueue 
(~ is your demon home dir) as wrk/txt pairs; create a new dir 
~/nqueue -- this is where GremNOS will look -- and move them 
there.  Oh, and delete the .wrk file, it's not needed.  You might 
also have to delete the "To: mail2news@..." line and alter the 
"Path:" line -- I forget the details, but something like 
replacing the "!colin" at the end with "!not-for-mail".

Alternatively, take a trip to www.johnwash.co.uk and grab a JW 
version of Snews, which will do all this for you!

I've had a modicum of success here too; it would appear that over 
the years my autoexec.net has suffered and some lines out of 
order, leading to whatever was defined for the time server not 
being resolved in a timely manner.  I'm still tweaking but at 
least the time check is now happening within a few seconds.

I suspect that longer term a small change to the nettime module 
might be in order...

Cheers,
Pete

-- 
   "We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors,
    we have borrowed it from our descendants."