> I'm having the darn hardest time to get the 'slrn' to use NNTP to access a > news server: it always insists for some reason on reading news from a > non-existent local spool! It does this despite me giving --nntp flag, -h > SERVER, setting NNTPSERVER in the environment, etc. I've done pretty much all
I don't know if this will help, but I had to set the read active flag to true. Otherwise, I never got any groups from my isp. The set active flag is in the .slrnrc file. John