Re: News reading
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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).
slrn does a nice job of pulling the news and letting you read it either
online or offline.
>
> 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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