Subject: Cannot configure for news (:-(

From: [email-masked] (Slawomir Tengowski)
Date: 28 Jun 1995 18:58:29 +0200

Hello!

 Some days ago I got Pine. After several trials at last I made run but I still
cannot read the news by pine. 
 My config looks like this:
personal-name          = Slawomir Tengowski
user-domain            = [email-masked]
smtp-server            = <No Value Set>
nntp-server            = coli.uni-sb.de
inbox-path             = /var/mail/tengowski
folder-collections     = /beige/CIP/tengowski/Mail/[]

whenever I want to access the newsfolder pine prints:
[Can't open mailbox /var/spool/news/comp: no such folder]

 I have read the manuals but it was very quickly frustrating - I could not make it run. Does somebody have similar experiences but did it finally? Can somebody help?

Thanx! Yours, Tengo!   

PS:And something for smiling:
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"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
         the Universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
                  (c) 'Calvin& Hobbes' by Bill Watterson

                         +++ Slawomir Tengowski +++
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From: [email-masked] (movable articles)
Date: 28 Jun 1995 17:23:28 GMT

Slawomir Tengowski ([email-masked]) wrote:
: whenever I want to access the newsfolder pine prints:
: [Can't open mailbox /var/spool/news/comp: no such folder]
: I could not make it run. Does somebody have similar experiences
: but did it finally?  Can somebody help?

Are you in a Unix environment?  Pine is great for mail, but tin is the 
way to go for news.  It's easy to use and hardly ever has problems.

David

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From: "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:53:58 -0400

Looks like you misconfigured the NNTP connection - if you reside on 
coli.uni-sb.de and the same machine is the news-server, then you wouldn't 
need NNTP (and the news would come from /var/spool/news). You need to 
find someone knowledgeable about your local news setup to tell you what's 
the proper NNTP address, if any.
 Incidentally, you set your 'user-domain' wrong, too: it should not 
contain the username!

 Zoli [email-masked] (note my old full address @bcuxs2 is retired)
"For my assured failures and derelictions, I ask pardon beforehand of my
betters and my equals in my calling." - Rudyard Kipling