Re: IMAP servers and newsgroups (Was: Charset in insight)

[Samuel W. Heywood]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:29:56 +0100 (CET), Richard Menedetter wrote:

> Hi

> "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> SH> I can access newsgroups through my ISP's NNTP server
> SH> "news.shentel.net" while I am logged on to an IMAP server such as the
> SH> one at http://www.telebot.com and http://www.subdimension.com.
> You have 2 connections open.

> If you read news PINE uses NNTP, if you read mail, PINE uses the IMAP
> connection.

> That's it ... no special thing about that.

Could I configure PC-PINE to use the news server provided by an ISP other
than my own?  I certainly cannot think of any reason why I would want to do
this, I am just curious to know if such were possible.

Sam Heywood
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