GNU bug report logs - #11076
bug-gnu-emacs gateway to gnu.emacs.bug broken?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond <at> acadiau.ca>

Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:42:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 11076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond <at> acadiau.ca>
Cc: 11076 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11076: bug-gnu-emacs gateway to gnu.emacs.bug broken?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:55:19 +0100
Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond <at> acadiau.ca> writes:

>> No. I do it via news.gmane.org, which works pretty robust.
>
> Thanks for the pointer.  I've been trying that web site for hours (on
> and off) and unless they are being hit with a DOS attack today, I find
> them unusably slow (firefox is timing out repeatedly).

It isn't a web site. This is 

> And still, part of the issue is that (like a few other radicals,) I
> much prefer reading mailing lists / newsgroups with a news reader.
> Perhaps you are telling me that news.gmane.org support NNTP, but since
> I can't get to them, I can't try to find out for sure.

It is the NNTP server. My gnus settings contain

(setq gnus-secondary-select-methods '((nnml "")
				      (nntp "news" (nntp-address "news.gmane.org"))))

> Cheers.
> 				Jim

Best regards, Michael.




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