No tin can read directly from your newsserver. just envoke it as tin -r or rtin, and add your isp's news server to /etc/nntpserver. On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:25:23PM +0000, Keith Barrett wrote: > I am looking for some help with newsgroup reading. > > I have installed tin but am having problems with the setup. > > I want to connect to my isp's newsserver and download newsgroup > articles. > > Not sure if I will need something like leafnode or whether tin can > connect directly. > > At present, I cannot find where I should be putting the server > information > If I run tin, I get an error message that newsrc cannot be written. > > I have not been able to find a debian news howto so some advice or > reading suggestions would be helpful. > > Thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Footnotes are for things you believe don't really belong in LDP manuals, but want to include anyway. -- Joel N. Weber II discussing the 'make' chapter of LPG
