From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 2 8:10: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012F837B720 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 08:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@zaphod.realtime.co.uk) Received: from zaphod.realtime.co.uk ([194.205.134.208]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14k5x2-0007qi-01; Mon, 02 Apr 2001 16:09:04 +0100 Received: from waynep by zaphod.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14k5x4-0006w1-00; Mon, 02 Apr 2001 16:09:06 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: freebsd@sysmach.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usenet for freebsd References: <20010402143533.7EFDF36EF@sitemail.everyone.net> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 02 Apr 2001 16:09:06 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20010402143533.7EFDF36EF@sitemail.everyone.net> Message-ID: Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kyle 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