-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/07 04:07, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 22:09 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 19:08 +0100, michael wrote: >>> then when I click OK (having set my SMTP etc) it sits there >>> indefinitely saying "loading" and doesn't produce a lists of newsgroups >> I was bitten by this too, you actually need to select Folder → >> Subscriptions (or the equivalent in your version) and select the lists >> you want to subscribe to. >> >> This is the bug BTW, >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266481 >> > > Okay folks, thanks for the replies > i) I discovered that news.demon.co.uk is *not* available to me (despite > demon being my ISP!) > ii) I tried freenews.netfront.net and after waiting a lot more than a > couple of minutes, I got a list of groups and subscribed to > linux.debian.users (I think that's the correct name from mem) > iii) However, today Evo is asking me for a valid email a/c on freenews > iv) It appears freenews.netfront.net is read only -- any suggestions for > (UK) nntp servers? I'm only really interested in a small subgroup of > available news groups, linux.debian.users being the main (and at the > moment only) one
You might want to try gmane instead. It seems to have an nntp interface. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGE6QFS9HxQb37XmcRAtkSAJ9SnHrAKxAn1rxuf2SUJeY8FEqBXwCgw/TR C+ySEoMWOoUaE2iutXiZWg8= =dhPi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
