Re: [O] OT: gmane seems to be back

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Robert Pluim <address@hidden> writes:

    > Colin Baxter <address@hidden> writes:
    >>>>>>> Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:
    >> 
    >> > Achim Gratz <address@hidden> 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:
    >> 
    >> > (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) ))
    >> 
    >> My gnus works fine (always has) with just the first line. The
    >> nntp-open-tls-stream and port-numbers appear not to be
    >> required. And I thought gmane.org was could no longer be searched
    >> with nnir.

    > If you do that then you connect to port 119 using cleartext and
    > the connection is (potentially) upgraded using STARTTLS. Thatʼs
    > not the same as making a TLS connection to port 563. Whether this
    > matters for reading news is entirely a personal decision.

I did not know this so many thanks for the information.

    > The gmane search interface is sadly indeed defunct.

Shame :-(

Best wishes,