Re: News reading
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:58:42PM +0100, frleg@infonie.fr wrote:
> I am trying to install news reader on my computer.
> I would like to be able to fetch news while online and then read them and answer while offline.
> What do I need ? Cnews ?
There are two different ways of doing it.
One is the "Windows" approach where you have one program which downloads
the news and provides a reader interface for it. You get this in, for
example Free Agent (which I heard will run under Wine, but don't quote me
on that) under Windows. There are some Linux newsreaders that support
this mode - the only one I can name for you is Gnus, which is built into
the different Emacs variants (run "M-x gnus" or select it from the menus).
The more traditional Unix method is to have a seperate news server and
news reader. This gives you a much better range of readers to play
about with, and can be more flexible. The reader bit is simple - point
your news reader at the local machine and everything should work (this
is probably the default).
If you're simply pulling news from one upstream site then there is a
news server called leafnode (avalible as a package) which is designed
for this and should be pretty much hassle free. If you have more
complex needs, or feel more adventurous, you can use a news server
like inn or cnews together with a seperate program like suck or newsx
to download and upload the news.
> Is there any good documentation about it ? I didn't found any HOWTO or things like that about it
There was a News HOWTO way back when when the world was young, but nobody
was maintaining it so it died a death.
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