Re: Can't post news
Hardy Griech (rgriech@ibm.net)
Mon, 16 Sep 1996 00:32:41 +0200
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996 08:11:56 -0800,
song@mail.tpe.wownet.net (Song-Yu Yang) wrote:
> rgriech@ibm.net (Hardy Griech) wrote:
> >If you can retrieve all newsgroups from yur ISP do it, and check if
> >the group still exists (possibly another solution). You can do this
> >also with 'telnet -p 119 news-srvr' and then 'LIST' (enable logging on
> >the command line)
>
> To check the news groups your NNTPSERVER provided, just send a email
> to "UQWK", and put "ALLGROUPS" in the body of email. Of course, you
> have to send the mail out thru uqwk. Then you'll get a list of news
> groups as the reply.
:
Sorry, but why not using the telnet approach, it is really simple and
straight. Here is the exact command line - if that keeps one from
using it - for OS/2 Warp Connect:
telnet -l logfile -p 119 your.news.server
As stated above type 'LIST' after connection established, that's it...
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