From stefan.troeger@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de Sun Mar 29 20:43:47 1998
From: stefan.troeger@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] News Reading
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:43:47 +0200
Message-ID: <6fmbq3$24m$1@Galois.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] News Reading>
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Hi,
On Sun, Mar 29, 1998 at 20:56 +0200, Jim Hatridge wrote:
> Hi all;
>=20
> I know that this is a silly question, but I have no idea where to even
> start setting up a news reader. I mean I have tin, rtin, and pine. But how
> do I set up a connection to a news server (ie news.uni-stuttgart.de)?=20
>=20
> Can someone give me a step by step list?
To use news.uni-stuttgart.de as your news server you could
simply do
export NNTPSERVER=3Dnews.uni-stuttgart.de
and connect to your ISP. Then launch rtin. If you want to use
Pine choose Setup/Config in its main menu and change nntp-server
to news.uni-stuttgart.de.
The disadvantage here is that you have to be online to read news
(I wouldn't do this in Germany, it's just waste of money). If
you want to read news offline you'll have to set up a local news server.
IMHO Leafnode is quite easy to install (it has the requested
step by step list). You can get it at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/n=
ews/readers/leafnode-1.4-7.src.elf.tar.gz>
Ciao
Stefan
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