Re: Setting up Tin Newsreader

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From: David H. Lee
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 00:00

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Geoff Leff (gleff@gil.com.au) wrote:
: gleff@gil.com.au (Geoff Leff) wrote:


: Thanks to those that sent me email.. I was inundated with email..
: However, nothing fixed the problem..  It actually looks to me like
: something is overwriting the environment variable.

: it says this when I start up tin -r

: Connecting to set.your.NNTPSERVER.variable

just plop the hostname for your NNTPSERVER in /etc/nntpserver

my /etc/nntpserver is:

cnn.Princeton.EDU

and that's all there is to it.

BTW tin has a useful command line option that ONLY loads those 
newsgroups you are subscribed to, and is MUCH faster that way.

start it as, 

tin -r -n

That should speed things up :)

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Date: 1996/10/02
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