Ideally, the environment variable NNTPSERVER or the file /etc/news/server would determine the NNTP news server for any news-reader. This would ideally work for knews, netscape, pine, trn, ... . I believe one can configure the traditional news readers like knews, pine, trn to use the variable NNTPSERVER, but NNTPSERVER apparently can not be used by netscape.
Of course, I have set the news-server's name within netscape. But each user must do this (though I have but three users here at home). My main motivation for wanting that netscape refer to something like $NNTPSERVER is that I use two different ISPs, often in the same day. When I switch my ISP during the day, I prefer not to reconfigure netscape. One solution would have all news-readers refer to my local computer for news service, then run a dummy/caching news-server on my local computer. I dabbled at INN, saw no documentation on such a trivial use, and gave up. Perhaps leafnode would do this; I don't know. Does anyone know a simple way to switch between NNTP servers by either a. feeding something to netscape b. running a local news dummy -- Jim Burt, NJ9L, Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mnsinc.com/jameson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience." --William James, Varieties of Religious Experience -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
