newsreader connecting on port 563

[Will Parsons]

Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I've been happily using nn, connecting to aioe.org
> on default port 119. Something happened, perhaps with
> the university firewall, or something else. A colleague
> tells me he can connect to aioe.org on port 563 using
> some MS based newsreader.
>
> I cannot see how to tell nn to connect on port 563.
>
> Is there a way?
>
> I also tried to slrn, which provides "-p port" option,
> but still no luck:
>
> $ slrn -p 563
> slrn 1.0.2
>
> Loading /usr/local/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl
> Using newsrc file /home/mexas/.jnewsrc for server aioe.org.
> Connecting to host aioe.org ...
> Failed to initialize server
> Run-Time Error
> Reason: 
> slrn fatal error:
> Failed to initialize server.

Try prepending "snews://" to the server name.

-- 
Will