Re: slrn+NNTP help

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Subject: Re: slrn+NNTP help
From: "John F. Davis" <davis@skink.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:13:04 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 20000411161304.A17591@suit.skink.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20000411160653.A4274@khazad-dum>; from Maciej Kalisiak on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:06:53PM -0400
References: <[🔎] 20000411160653.A4274@khazad-dum>

> I'm having the darn hardest time to get the 'slrn' to use NNTP to access a
> news server: it always insists for some reason on reading news from a
> non-existent local spool!  It does this despite me giving --nntp flag, -h
> SERVER, setting NNTPSERVER in the environment, etc.  I've done pretty much all


I don't know if this will help, but I had to set the read active flag to true.
Otherwise, I never got any groups from my isp.

The set active flag is in the .slrnrc file.

John

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