Subject: Newsreading with Pine

From: Jeff Stillinger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 04:28:53 -0700

Hello all,

I would like to use pine as a news reader.  News arives at ibbs from
a UUCP link.  How can I get pine to act as a news reader?  I have 
played with the options and it still can't find the newsgroups.

Any ideas?

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Jeff Stillinger  <[email-masked]  [email-masked]  [email-masked]>
http://red-agnes.la.ca.us/~js

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From: [email-masked] (S Chan)
Date: 11 Jun 1996 00:49:15 GMT

Jeff Stillinger ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hello all,

: I would like to use pine as a news reader.  News arives at ibbs from
: a UUCP link.  How can I get pine to act as a news reader?  I have 
: played with the options and it still can't find the newsgroups.

: Any ideas?

This is just a beginner talking - but i think that if you go from the 
main menu into Setup, then Config and trawl through the options you'll 
find one that is 'nntp server' or similar.

Find out the name of your news server from the relevant admin people and 
insert it (ie news.zzz.xxx).

I'm unsure because in the end I went back to using TIN - because I found 
the threading of posts makes it easier to deal with high volume groups.

Hope this helps point you in the right direction.

Malcolm

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