From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.62]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19S2Oq-00052D-00 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:24:28 -0400 Received: from 0-1pool133-141.nas4.cleveland1.oh.us.da.qwest.net ([65.150.133.141] helo=tward1978) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19S2Ol-0006c5-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:24:24 -0700 Message-ID: <002f01c33456$dc6d7aa0$8d859641@tward1978> From: "Thomas D. Ward" To: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030616161517.023ce510@mail.shawcable.com> Subject: Re: news again Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:30:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, use slrn. It comes with Red Hat and I think there is a debian package. Anyway, it is a nice news client. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Snow To: Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 5:35 PM Subject: Re: news again > Ok I'll try that. It's just that the news howto seemed to make seem like > you needed to install a transport and spool it all locally. > So what's a good news client? I don't want to use pine for one since I > don't like it a lot. > > -- > A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Doug wrote: > > > Alex, > > > > Are you sure you need a news feed? The news transports like > > INN and Cnews are for running your own news server. This > > means that you are becoming a new feed, spooling ALL news > > (or what you have configured) from another news server. > > Perhaps you don't need to bother with setting up INN or > > equivalent. You might also want to think about the band > > width (and disk space) consumed in doing so. I think you > > can read news from another public NNTP server without > > having to set up INN. All you need is a news client. You > > point the client to that public server and download only > > the stuff you want to read. This is what most people do. > > Most people don't set up their own news server for just > > one person. You should, for example, be able to fire up > > netscape, edit the preferences for news, and configure > > that public (external) news server as the default news > > server. Try running just a news client (reader) and > > point it to the free NNTP server. > > > > -- Doug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup