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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.
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Sam Heywood,
So now I see PC-PINE does not need an IMAP server to use a news server. To use
a news server other than your ISP's news server, I suppose you could simply
replace your-isp.news.server with other.news.server in whatever file that goes
in? I had to access a different news server when news.bluegrass.net went down
from Feb 24 to 27 and lost all data, then after it came back, everything started
from no.1 in all newsgroups. UKA_PPP did that with a modification of the
command line. It also helped to first browse with DOS Lynx 386, which now has
built-in news support, to get the appropriate message numbers for the downtime
interval. That other news server was horribly slow, making my 56 K modem look
like 2400 bps. Another possibility is to go through www.deja.com or
www.remarq.com.
Thomas Mueller
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