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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
