On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Phillip Morgan wrote: > Sorry, I meant a news reader. Anything like free agent, netscape, MSIE, opera > or any of the other millions of readers out there. So I actually meant "the > web". Usenet != "The web". NNTP != "The web" A browser with an NNTP reader does not make Usenet "The web" > Personally, I'm using the mail reader that comes with Netscape Communicator. Which is one of the worst NNTP readers available and which exhibits some extremely undesireable characteristics when people starting clicking on "next" repeatedly. > > You need to setup a NNTP server to handle the local groups. > Such as? Isn't this what nntpcache is? NNTPcache is a proxy/cache and nothing else. You need to setup INN or Typhoon to handle the local groups (or politly ask a news admin on another site to setup a hierarchy for you with restricted access). Either that or use Dnews, but I have no truck with companies which spam. AB
