Subject: How to access Newgroups from Pine??

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 20:11:12 -0600

Hi!
I am using pine to send and recv mail and have Internet Shell account.  I would like to know how to access
news groups via Pine.  When I press Ctrl-R from the To: field I get a field for Newgroups also.  But when I enter the name of a newsgroup in it
it says something about no remote news server being defined.
Do I have to create a .newsrc file??  what are all the steps I should under-take in order to access newgroups through Pine??
I would be extremely grateful if somebody could help me on this.
By the way, in  case I have to provide in pine, the name of a remote-news server, kindly also tell me where I can find
them. (I mean the list of remote-news servers)
Thanks in advance
Dilip

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 16 Dec 1996 20:14:09 GMT

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>it says something about no remote news server being defined.
[snip]
>what are all the steps I should under-take in order to access newgroups
>through Pine??

All you have to do is set the remote news server (Setup Config
nntp-server) and restart pine. A newsgroup folder collection will be
automatically created, and a .newsrc if it doesn't already exist.

>By the way, in  case I have to provide in pine, the name of a remote-news
>server, kindly also tell me where I can find them. (I mean the list of
>remote-news servers)

I don't remember where to find that list, but the machine news.vsnl.net.in
exists, so that is probably your local news server.

Greetings,
Ørjan.