From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 15:11:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA07666 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA07656; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (am081.du.pipex.com [193.130.252.81]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA22907 ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:11:06 -0700 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA07389; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:02:55 GMT Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:02:55 GMT Message-Id: <199606211402.OAA07389@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: conrads@neosoft.com CC: questions@freebsd.org, support@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199606202214.RAA20358@praline.no.neosoft.com> (message from Conrad Sabatier on Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:10:29 +0600) Subject: Re: trn/inews posting problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What is the recommended way to enable trn to post articles directly > to a remote server? If cnews is one of the normal solutions, what is > the key to getting it to work purely as a "pass-through" mechanism. > > I don't want to run my own news server! :-) In which case the only way I know of that you can post is to read news online. The "normal" way to do this off-line is to run a news server such as CNEWS or INN. I used to run INN and use the nntpsend program that comes with it to send my postings to my ISP, and slurp to pull articles off their server. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk