On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:58:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I am trying to install news reader on my computer. I would like to be > > able to fetch news while online and then read them and answer while > > offline. > > > What do I need ? Cnews ? > > There are two different ways of doing it. > > One is the "Windows" approach where you have one program which downloads > the news and provides a reader interface for it. You get this in, for > example Free Agent (which I heard will run under Wine, but don't quote me > on that) under Windows. There are some Linux newsreaders that support > this mode - the only one I can name for you is Gnus, which is built into > the different Emacs variants (run "M-x gnus" or select it from the menus).
slrn does a nice job of pulling the news and letting you read it either online or offline. > > The more traditional Unix method is to have a seperate news server and > news reader. This gives you a much better range of readers to play > about with, and can be more flexible. The reader bit is simple - point > your news reader at the local machine and everything should work (this > is probably the default). > > If you're simply pulling news from one upstream site then there is a > news server called leafnode (avalible as a package) which is designed > for this and should be pretty much hassle free. If you have more > complex needs, or feel more adventurous, you can use a news server > like inn or cnews together with a seperate program like suck or newsx > to download and upload the news. > > > Is there any good documentation about it ? I didn't found any HOWTO or > > things like that about it > > There was a News HOWTO way back when when the world was young, but nobody > was maintaining it so it died a death. > > -- > Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) > http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ > EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
