news again

[Alex Snow]

Ok I'll try that. It's just that the news howto seemed to make seem like
you needed to install a transport and spool it all locally.
So what's a good news client? I don't want to use pine for one since I
don't like it a lot.

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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Doug wrote:

> 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
>
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