Re: news server name change

[Joe Fineman]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:
>
>> groups, and that was a long agony the first time.  So I just
>> changed the two references to the old name in my files.  The result
>> was that when I first logged in I found all the groups were empty;
>> but I could live with that.  Now everything is fine.
>
> so what changes did you make and where?

In ~/.emacs:
  (setq gnus-nntp-server "news.eternal-september.org")
In ~/.authinfo:
  (machine news.eternal-september.org login joe_f force yes password *********)
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---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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