Date: 02 Apr 2001 16:09:06 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> To: freebsd@sysmach.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usenet for freebsd Message-ID: <m14rw7cp9p.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010402143533.7EFDF36EF@sitemail.everyone.net> References: <20010402143533.7EFDF36EF@sitemail.everyone.net>
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Kyle <freebsd@sysmach.com> writes: > I've been trying to configure PINE to read articles on usenet. > > comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce > > comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > > I got the above addresses from www.freebsd.org but PINE keeps > telling me that IT DOES NOT EXIST. I have no clue why it keeps > telling me that. I have not used USENET before, so maybe I did > something wrong. Please advice. Also, please tell me some good > usenet groups that will help readers in freebsd-problems, if > any. thanks. Hi there, You need to specify a news (nntp) server in your pine config. I would suggest that you use something like leafnode to make your machine into a news server, and let that pull all of the articles from your isp or news provider. Then set your nntp server to localhost / youripaddress in pine. In your pine config, do a search (w if I remember) for nntp / news. If you're not hell bent on pine and you're a newbie, I'd suggest looking at pan from the Gnome project or netscape. If you want to learn, and want a rich, powerful newsreader, there's always gnus :) Hope that helps some... -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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