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[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-03-02, Christian <ckkart at hoc.net> wrote:

>>> I found out that gmane does not like my ISP. SSH tunneling to
>>> some other host works.
>> 
>> That's very odd.  When you telnet to the NNTP port on
>> news.gmane.org, you get a message like this?
>> 
>>    $ telnet news.gmane.org 119
>>    Trying 80.91.229.5...
>>    Connected to news.gmane.org.
>>    Escape character is '^]'.
>>    200 news.gmane.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.1 ready (posting ok).
>> 
>> And you can do commands like this?
>> 
>>    help
>>    [... list of NNTP commands ...]   
>
> works
>
>>    list active
>>    [... long list of newsgroups ...]   
>
> hangs forever. Does not output anything.

Well, I must say I'm stumped.

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