On 18/02/01 00:17 -0600, Indraneel Majumdar spewed into the LI bitstream:
> tin -g servername
> or do as slrn says, set the variable in .bashrc like this
> export NNTPSERVER=my.news.server
right - but tin (and you'd need tin -r if it's a remote nntp server you are
trying to read from, without setting up nntpcache / innd to spool the news
locally) is dead slow. Use slrn instead.
> If you have a vsnl account you can use news.vsnl.net.in to post and read
> news. This is a server with high downtime but lots of groups. generally
... and atrocious propagation of articles
> the isp should have a news server to allow posting from it's clients.
not necessarily. some isps like satyam don't have one - and they have router
blocked port 119 (nntp) thanks to a large amount of usenet spam coming from
their netspace, which led to them (and vsnl) being under a udp some time back.
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, FREDERICK NORONHA wrote:
> > >Can't get a (fully-qualified) domain-name!
> > >Try and save newsrc file again? (y/n): y
> > >Reading startup file /home/fred/.slrnrc.You need to set the NNTPSERVER
you sure it's TIN you are using? This looks a lot like slrn :)
-s
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