Subject: Re: Posting to newsgroups

From: Stephen Richard Laniel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 20:00:19 -0400

Excerpts from netnews.comp.mail.pine: 14-Apr-97 Re: Posting to
newsgroups by Orjan [email-masked] 
> As far as I know, the NNTP-posting-host is usually not the nntp server 
> but rather the local machine that initially contacted the first real 
> nntp server - if the server is explicitly noted it is usually as an 
> NNTP-posting-server line instead. Looking further into the Path: line 
> of the original message I found

>From discussions I've had with tech support people since I wrote that
message, I've discovered that we don't have an NNTP server here.  It has
been requested in the past, but someone here said that there are certain
problems with NNTP which make CMU not want to install one.  I have no
idea what those problems might be.

The approach CMU uses to send messages to newsgroups seems to me a bit
of a kludge.  We send an e-mail message to address that looks like the
following:

[email-masked]

This makes it harder to reply to newsgroup messages from within Pine
than it should be.  I have to use one proprietary CMU e-mail program to
post to newsgroups, and Pine to write e-mail messages.  (We're in the
middle of switching from the proprietary Andrew Message System to a
more-open IMAP-based system.)

Can someone suggest a way for me to get around Pine's NNTP-server
requirement?  Ideally, whenever I would reply to a newsgroup message,
Pine would add an address of the form listed above to the "To:" line,
and would then delete the newsgroup from the "Newsgrps:" line.  Is this
possible?

Thanks for your help.

--Steve

Stephen R. Laniel                 |    "I was born not knowing and
Carnegie Mellon University        |     have only had a little time to
[email-masked]                    |     change that here and there."
www.andrew.cmu.edu/~laniel        |               --Richard Feynman

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 14 Apr 1997 22:09:37 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Sylvain Robitaille <[email-masked]> wrote:
>On Wed,  9 Apr 1997 12:01:21 -0400,
>Stephen Richard Laniel <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>>No one at this university seems to know what its NNTP server is. 
>
>According to your message, the NNTP posting host at cmu is po9.andrew.cmu.edu,
>however that machine does not seem to accept NNTP connections from the
>outside, (nor do any of the others I was able to identify to try and help with
>this).

nntp.sei.cmu.edu

which looks promising.

Greetings,
Ørjan.