On Thursday 10 Feb 2005 22:24, Richard E Miles wrote: > I was trying to contact the news.gmain.org newsserver but was unable. I > typed slrn -nntp -h news.gmain.org --create. It said: > Reading startup file /etc/slrn.rc. > Using newsrc file /home/rmiles/.jnewsrc for server news.gmain.org. > Connecting to host news.gmain.org ...Failed to resolve news.gmain.org > slrn fatal error: > Failed to initialize server. > > How do I use this news service? > I also did a ping news.gmain.org and got unknown address. You don't mean "news.gmane.org" by any chance do you? HTH Colin -- Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.10-ck3 KDE-Redhat-3.3.2-1.6.2.kde Registered Linux user number #342953
