Re: [Sheflug] newsgroups

[lesleyb <lesley.binks [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Collier wrote:
> I've been trying out pan and knode newsreaders. I was at a loss as to 
> how  to download and assemble files to be of use, so looked around for 
> tutorials. Pan manual not there and the kontact handbook doesn't give 
> any clues. Searching on the web so far only gives me mswin propriety 
> type tools that you have to pay for.
>
> Anyone know of a link for linux tutorial on newsreaders?
>
> Peter C
Well, I use google/groups to look at what's going on in the usenet world.

There is GNUs available under emacs for the determined.  You do need to 
set your NEWSSERVER environment variable to the url of your ISP's 
newsreader and then you should be able to look at the groups available 
from your ISP's newsserver.  Obviously there may be other urls you wish 
to use.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'download and assemble files to be of 
use'.  I don't know how emacs handles binary files on newsgroups.

About 2,670,000 hits on the search string linux + newsreader via google. 
 If you look at the results of the google groups search then you can 
see discussions on precisely this topic in news.software.readers and 
alt.os.linux. Try one with a manual available.

L.
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