Subject: Can I forward my newsgroups from one acct to another?

From: [email-masked] (Christine Mackley)
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 23:23:31 GMT

Hi

I have a new slip account and I want to know if I can forward a few
newsgroups that I can't get in my new account?  I all ready made a
forward file and it forwards my email bot now the newsgroup mail.

HELP!

Thanks in idvance,
Christine

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 09:18:25 +0100 (BST)

Whilst Pine allows you to read and send e-mail and Usenet News messages 
in very similar ways, the underlying delivery mechanisms are quite different.

E-mail arrives at your machine, and gets delivered into a file owned by 
you, and for only you.  Once messages have arrived they remain sitting in 
this file on disk waiting for you to read them and deal with them.

Usenet News is quite a different kettle of fish.  Here articles are 
delivered to a special machine running "news server" software.  They are 
held in a *shared* directory area -- the same area is available to all 
the users, rather then having separate personal copies for each user.

When somebody wants to read news Pine (or whatever other news reader you 
are using) connects to the server and requests a copy of the article to 
display.  This doesn't get saved to a file of your own on disk unless you 
explicitly give a command to do so.

After a time the news server software "expires" old articles, deleting 
them from its shared directory to make room for new material.

So whereas e-mail "comes to you", Usenet News is more of a "you go out 
and get the article you want to read".  This means that whilst e-mail can 
be redirected -- delivered to a different machine/username -- Usenet News 
cannot.

You *might* be able to get around your problem by connecting to your 
"old" news server computer (assuming you are still allowed access after 
your move) to read News from.

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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