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@xxxxxxx> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
