>>>>> Robert Pluim <rpl...@gmail.com> writes:
> Colin Baxter <m43...@yandex.com> writes:
>>>>>>> Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> 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,
