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

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> 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.

Best wishes,