the story is here, in fact: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/01/06/whatever-happened-to-news-gmane-org/
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, 19:59 Dima Pasechnik, <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > try news.gmane.io > > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, 19:47 Simon King, <simon.k...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I prefer reading all SageMath-related groups with slrn, via >> news.gmane.org. However, since a few days, I always get this: >> king@klap:~$ slrn >> slrn 1.0.2 >> >> Loading /usr/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl >> Reading startup file /etc/news/slrn.rc. >> Reading startup file /home/king/.slrnrc. >> Loading /usr/share/slrn/slang/mime.sl***Warning: Unable to find a unique >> fully-qualified host name. >> slrn will not generate any Message-IDs. >> Please note that the "hostname" setting does not affect this; >> see the "slrn reference manual" for details. >> >> Using newsrc file /home/king/.jnewsrc for server news.gmane.org. >> Connecting to host news.gmane.org ... >> Unable to make connection. Giving up. >> >> Run-Time Error >> slrn fatal error: >> Failed to initialize server. >> >> Do you happen to know whether I can solve that problem on my end? Or >> whether the list administrator can do something about it? Or is >> news.gmane.org simply dead? >> >> Best regards, >> Simon >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/25d3dd5b-2e56-4c31-b09b-8712e14760ec%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/25d3dd5b-2e56-4c31-b09b-8712e14760ec%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq0FONOPVKiMv-bTVFpJ11Win5XsRLwFqoA5HOOG9%2B505g%40mail.gmail.com.