Re: News Readers

2006-05-02 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:39:46PM -0500, Daniel L. McGrew wrote: Am I doing a better job of pruning??? That newsgroup address didn't work either... says that it can't find the server... What would I type into the address bar to get to it, the url??? So far I'm using

Re: Of news readers, slurpers, and servers...

1999-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:07:41PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on how to handle newsreading on my new debian linux workstation. =). I'm leaving forte Agent behind in the windows world and am a little sad to see it go, but here are my initial questions about unix

Re: Of news readers, slurpers, and servers...

1999-07-06 Thread ferret
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Just what I personally use: nntpcache (non-free but good software. I've used it since bo was released) It's a caching news server and will read and post to multiple servers. I have my ISP's server set up as the primary, then I grab a few

Re: Of news readers, slurpers, and servers...

1999-07-06 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 01:22:59AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 07:07:41PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: On Windows one program does everything from downloading the news to presenting it to the user. On Unix systems the program responsible for storing and downloading the

Re: Of news readers, slurpers, and servers...

1999-07-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 11:30:21PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 01:22:59AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: [Leafnode] 1. Support for multiple servers is done through the suplement= setting. In my situation, I have a primary news server that is going to get me the standard

Of news readers, slurpers, and servers...

1999-07-05 Thread Jonathan Lupa
I'm looking for suggestions on how to handle newsreading on my new debian linux workstation. =). I'm leaving forte Agent behind in the windows world and am a little sad to see it go, but here are my initial questions about unix newsreaders... First of all, is there are way to set up a local news

mpack recommends news readers, why ?

1996-12-06 Thread D M-L
I don't have Internet connexion at home. I don't nedd news readers, but sometimes I use munpack to uudecode. why not just suggests news readers, or suggest anythings -- Spineux Alain == Spineux Alain