I think you can so something like news.somewhere.com/nntp/user=username and pine will send the username and prompt for the password. I haven't used pine for news in quite a while. I like slrn. Chris On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:12:20PM -0600, raul.a.gallegos at mail.sprint.com wrote: > I personally prefer pine but the only problem with it currently for me > is that I cna't figure out how to authenticate to a news server if it's > needed. And right now with Earthlink it's needed. After I get > speakeasy installed I will not need to authenticate to speakeasy.net > news servers so I can wait. If there is a way to be able to > authenticate to a news server using pine I would much appreciate knowing > how to do this. > > In short I would stick with pine. > > -----Original Message----- > From: tmoore [mailto:tmoore at cmrc.org] > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:02 PM > To: speakup > Subject: News readers. > > > Hi guys. Am looking for suggestions on which reader to use to read news > groups? > I know of a few, pine, tin, trn and I think there are a few others out > there as well. > Which ones work best for those out there who surf the groups? > Heh. > > Tommy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
