From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 15 11:42:57 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA14294 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 11:42:57 -0800 Received: from dtr.com (dtr.rain.com [204.119.8.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA14281 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 11:42:52 -0800 From: bmk@dtr.com Received: (from bmk@localhost) by dtr.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA01843; Wed, 15 Nov 1995 11:42:00 -0800 Message-Id: <199511151942.LAA01843@dtr.com> Subject: Re: Netscape and News Proxies?? To: troyc@sandy.merix.com (Troy Curtiss) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 11:42:00 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Troy Curtiss" at Nov 15, 95 09:46:49 am Reply-To: bmk@dtr.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 554 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I have netscape 2.02b running great on my 2.0.5R FreeBSD box. My company > doesn't have the luxury of an internal News server, so we use our provider's. > Netscape apparently can't do news through a proxy, is this true? I know > lynx can do news thru a proxy. This is more of a netscape question, but > will I have to run lynx side-by-side with my netscape (on FreeBSD) to get > news? TIA Netscape can read news via a proxy - you have to configure the proxy address in netscape, and your proxy http server must know how to forward news:* URL's.