news again

[Doug]

Alex,

Are you sure you need a news feed? The news transports like
INN and Cnews are for running your own news server. This
means that you are becoming a new feed, spooling ALL news
(or what you have configured) from another news server.
Perhaps you don't need to bother with setting up INN or
equivalent. You might also want to think about the band
width (and disk space) consumed in doing so. I think you
can read news from another public NNTP server without
having to set up INN. All you need is a news client. You
point the client to that public server and download only
the stuff you want to read. This is what most people do.
Most people don't set up their own news server for just
one person. You should, for example, be able to fire up
netscape, edit the preferences for news, and configure
that public (external) news server as the default news
server. Try running just a news client (reader) and
point it to the free NNTP server.

   -- Doug