From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 2 13:42:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054D237B718 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@1nova.com) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 05FA518CB; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F15B318CA; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:06:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:06:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: Edwin Groothuis Cc: Kyle , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usenet for freebsd In-Reply-To: <20010402165900.T490@cgmd76206.chello.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. > > Isn't PINE a mail-reader, while you need a news-reader for usenet? > See /usr/ports/news/tin for a basic news-reader. Pine does news... you just need to setup the news server in Pine's configuration. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message