In order to set up a news server, you need to obtain a NEWS feed. This is far different than setting up a NEWS reader (which I'll bet is what you probably want.). Most news feeds will COST you big $$$ unless you have a friend who works in a feeder site... You can use programs such as SUCK to pull down a group or groups from a nntp site however. Think carefully before you do this though. You might want to just use PAN to grab all the new messages in a specific group. Even then, expect your hard drive to fill after a few days. If you -REALLY- want to set up a news server and have obtained a feed, then given that you've spent this much, you might want to invest in one of the O'Reilly books on News and NNTP. -JMS -----Original Message----- From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 12:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] worthless software innd I wonder why innd does not work, I installed it and I can't get one, not even ONE group on my news group server, totally useless, can't find jack on mandrakeuser.org can't find jack ina yany faq anwwyawhere