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 thin

Fetchmail problem

ailx, but nothing from 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 U

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 /etc

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

;) I have to type 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 W