Problem with sending usenet items with emacs gnus

I purchased a Debian Woody (Unofficial) distro from Edmunds Enterprises and installed it. It seems OK except I'm having a lot of trouble with default configurations for communicating with the outside world. I've already posted some questions (can't telnet in, the Mail transfer agent which I

Telnet weirdness

Hi, I have two computers, one is running a slack 8.0 distro, the other I am trying to migrate from slack to debian woody (Actually, Debian Woody unofficial, purchased from Edmunds Enterprises). They are connected by a single ethernet cable with a crossover network with static IP addresses in

Fetchmail problem

fetchmail. Right now, the only way I can read mail from my ISP in Debian is with netscape messenger. (I'm sending this from my ISP shell account, using mailx.) Does anybody have any ideas on what I have to do to get fetchmail to work? Regards, Carl Weidling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Why do I have to double type tildes quotes when in X-Window?

it twice. Also, the ALT key does not work as a meta key for emacs. If I'm just at a console prompt without X, they work fine. I'm assuming there's some configuration file used by Xwindows that has to be adjusted. Anybody know what it is and how? Regards, Carl Weidling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email