news again

[Thomas D. Ward]

Hi, use slrn. It comes with Red Hat and I think there is a debian package.
Anyway, it is a nice news client.

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Snow <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: news again


> 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.
>
> --
> A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up
yours!"
> 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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