Re: News and News reader
Quoting Luis Francisco Gonzalez (luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk):
> I have tried to install a news reader but it seems to require that I install
> a nntp package. Is that so? Is there any way to get a news reader that will
> connect to a remote server instead of requiring that I run a server locally?
Nearly ALL newsreader you may choose from dselect are capable of reading
news via NNTP.
slrn -h hostname (for example)
Just have a look at a file like /etc/nntpserver or so -- there you have to
fill in your default nntp server.
Alexander
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