I am having trouble posting a news article from
my home computer over a ppp connection to my
ISP's NNTPSERVER. I can read news fine; it is
only posting with which I am having a problem.
I believe the problem is that my /etc/news/sys file
is not set up correctly. When I installed inews via
apt-get, the only (uncommented) line in /etc/news/sys
was
ME:comp,news,sci,rec,misc,soc,talk,alt,can,ont,tor,ut,to
I have tried adding various lines like
netnews.worldnet.att.net:all:Lf:
but when I try to post (via trn) an article I get an
error message back saying
inews: No valid newsgroups in misc.test
Would a kind person tell me how they set up their /etc/news/sys
file and anything else they had to do to get inews to work
via a ppp connection. Is there a HOWTO on this? (I have looked
but not been able to find one.)
Alternately, am I using the wrong program - inews - for what I am
trying to do? (Read and post news.)
Any help would be gratefully appreciated,
Blair
