Re: Debian newgroup (related new question)
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:51:29PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Paul E Condon (pecondon@quiknet.com) spake thusly:
> > I recently noticed that I have a news deamon running on my potato. I have
> > never really used news. It has seemed to me to be an alternative to mailing
> > lists that I didn't need because mailing lists seemed quite adequate for the
> > purpose. But with my new email setup (mutt/fetchmail/exim) I am confronted with
> > a constant stream of warning messages from the news deamon because it was never
> > properly configured. I wouldn't know how to configure it. Do I need news?
>
> Errm, news is client-server like everything else. Clients don't install
> any daemons, AFAIK. If you have a daemon running, you must've installed
> a news server package at some stage. No, you don't need a news server.
> You may want to install news client and have a look at newsgroups
> available on news.yourisp.com -- that might answer your next question.
>
> > This list, and a few other Debian lists serve me quite well. What would I gain?
> > Am I really missing something great?
>
> alt.sex.pictures? alt.tasteless.penis?
>
Thanks for clear view of where the messages are coming from.
I have removed inn2 which came as part of mpack.
Is the addressing scheme for news like that for URLs?
Are there really TLDs with such names? ;-)
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@quiknet.com
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