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Getting nntpd to poll news

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From: Thomas Eicher
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 07:29
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Hi all.

I spent yesterday nite getting nntpd to run on my Amiga. Now I
can connect and check the non-existent messages in e.g.
comp.sys.amiga.programmer.

Now I would have to get the mail somewhere. The docs just
say "have yourself added to some list on your nntp host". Well,
I am allowed to connect to a news server, but I guess that's
about it.
The docs further detailed two programs, the one non-working
at the time of writing (working now?), the other from Michael
van Elst slow, but working. Okay, I tried MvE nntpget, but
I don't really know how to tell it to only get new news.
I can provide a "since" option, but I thought that the nntpds deal
with that, what do I need it for in the first place ? And where
should I have nntpget put the news, or better, how do I 
feed it directly to nntpd ?

I'm quite lost right now :-( 
If multiple people were so kind and help me, I'd post
my (working) setup afterwards, to help others.

Tom.


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               Thomas Eicher - teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de 
           My opinions need not reflect those of my employer
               Looks good on the outside but Intel inside 
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From: teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de (Thomas Eicher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
Subject: Getting nntpd to poll news
Date: 11 Mar 1996 07:29:24 GMT
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf AG
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