newsreading with debian lenny

[Alex Snow]

If he's running leafnode he'd want to point his newsreader to 
localhost.
I'm not sure why he'd bother use leafnode, I always just used rtin and 
set it to use my ISP's newsserver.
On 
Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:47:42AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> I think he needs to set /etc/news/server  to the URL of a newsgroup
> server, rather than to his own URL. I recently set up tin in response
> to some of the discussions here, and had to set that file to
> news.mhcable.com, on the advice of my ISP, mhcable.com. I suggest
> trying a similar name, i.e. the word news and a dot in front of your
> ISP's name. 
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:39:54AM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > Why not set the nntpserver to localhost? assuming you're reading news 
> > on the same machine that leafnode is running on.
> > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 
> > 01:00:50PM +0000, Keith Barrett wrote:
> > > Thanks, Tony,
> > > 
> > > Have changed the ~/.bashrc file to include the NNTP server I have set 
> > > this as debian.barrettpianos.co.uk and also set the /etc/nntpserver to 
> > > the same.  Hope this is correct, it is the result of the command 
> > > hostname.
> > > 
> > > Not found anything in the leafnode docs but will keep looking.
> > > Thanks again
> > > 
> > > Keith
> > > 
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