sorry, its typo.

  In mail "[ruby-talk:20006] Re: Net::SMTP::start times out on Windows 98 Ruby 1.6.4"
    Minero Aoki <aamine / mx.edit.ne.jp> wrote:

> You must give server address to #new, not #start.
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                  .new      .start

Minero Aoki