Re: Accessing Secnews
On 06.07.2008 07:28, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused Blinky the
Shark to generate the following:? :
> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>
>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>
>>> Jay Garcia wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 05.07.2008 02:58, Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>>
>>>> --- Original Message ---
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Jay Garcia wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04.07.2008 00:18, clay wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --- Original Message ---
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> clay wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Jay Garcia wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> My umpteen year old work profile worked without tweaking. No joy
>>>>>>>>>>> from the newer install home box.
>>>>>>>>>>> Interesting, made a test post in testing. Wouldn't let me post with
>>>>>>>>>>> only a Subject. Had to put something in the body for the post to be
>>>>>>>>>>> accepted. This a new feature?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The 40 bit encryption block was only added in the TB 2.0.0.xx versions,
>>>>>>>>>> don't remember which one started it as well as the later Seamonkey
>>>>>>>>>> versions. If you're using an older TB or SM or Mozilla for that matter
>>>>>>>>>> then you don't need to tweak the setting(s) in about:config.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Home box= Version 1.5.0.14ubu (20080306)
>>>>>>>>> The settings are there and tweaked...
>>>>>>>>> Still can't get in. 'Connection to server secnews... timed out.'
>>>>>>>>> It worked before the expiration.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> are you using port 563 and is SSL checked?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yup...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Check your firewall settings/permissions. "Timed out" and "Connection
>>>>>> refused" are not the same thing, the latter being the one if your SSL
>>>>>> setting are not set to "true".
>>>>>>
>>>>> Jay, I'm probably just burning up my Stupid Question For The Month at a
>>>>> very early date, but what's the advantage to the user of using the
>>>>> secnews server?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Summed up pretty nicely by Dan, but I can add:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Because it's there! ;-)
>>>> 2. No incoming OR outgoing feed to usenet or otherwise
>>>> 3. Liberal posting policy(s)
>>>> 4. Spam harvesting softwares are few and far between that can
>>>> scan/harvest an SNEWS server. Yes, it CAN be done but usually not worth
>>>> the effort.
>>>> 5. NNTP Server software loaded/running on dedicated server, not shared.
>>>> 6. It's FREE !!
>>>> 7. reg is not blocked. :-)
>>>>
>>> I'm lost. I added secnews.netscape.com. I'm using port 563.
>>> Everything's dandy. Except I don't see any netscape.mozilla* hierarchy.
>>> I don't see a TB group. I don't see a FF group. The hell am I doing
>>> wrong?
>>>
>> ssl needs to be checked and see the last paragraph here:
>> news://news.mozilla.org:119/qLKdnUo2u4WJKffVnZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> or
>> http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.general/msg/82dec92432bb006b
>>
>
> Okay, I did that stuff for the certs and the advanced config and
> refreshed the groups list from the server.
>
> It apparently worked -- if there are only seven non-dev newsgroups in
> the whole netscape.mozilla* hierarchy.
>
>
>
click the update button next to the server-list!
reg
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