Keith Barrett wrote: > I want to connect to my isp's newsserver and download newsgroup > articles. > > You should use rtin or tin -r. > Not sure if I will need something like leafnode or whether tin can > connect directly. > > That depends on if you want to store articles locally or not. If you really want archives of a particular newsgroup, suck or leafnode would be a good idea, otherwise it's not necessary. > At present, I cannot find where I should be putting the server > information > You need to define the NNTPSERVER environment variable. You might be able to pass this on the command line as well, but the above is suggested. You could try "tin -r news.example.com" and see if that works. > If I run tin, I get an error message that newsrc cannot be written. > Try "touch .newsrc" in your home dir. If that doesn't work, try "touch .tin/newsrc" or similar instead. You could also manually put the name of a newsgroup in there, like: echo 0.test >.newsrc
