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 In article <4h3220$5sp@news1.wolfe.net>
  starship@3rdplanet.com (Rich aka Captain Blade) said:-

>I've sorta kinda gotten NOS and FIST working here (FIST seems fine
>AFAICT, at least for sending outbound email), but os far I haven't
>been able to get any news sent either direction.  Also, after NOS
>connects to my ISP, I have to manually ping the server before the news
>session will start (I've tried waiting up to 10 minutes and nothing
>will happen, but if I ping, it starts within a few seconds).
>
>Here are my NOS files;  I hope someone will be able to spot what I'm
>doing wrong.

>nntp groups demon.ip.support.atari comp.sys.atari.st

Never mess with this line, Oasis does its own thing so FIST (whatever 
it is) probably does as well.

>nntp addserver news.3rdplanet.com 600 

tells the news server to connect every 600 seconds. Leave it or even 
increase it.

>nntp dir \spool\articles\

where batch.txt gets written once news is obtained (correct).

>fkey 61 "nntp kick\n"

boots news into life. The important bit!

Assuming you have the news server name right and DNS is working then I 
can see nothing wrong. This means the date is probably wrong - Nos is 
asking for news in the future. type "nntp trace 4" and then you should 
be given more info.

Oasis for instance posesses a NNTP.DAT file where it stores the date 
of the last valid access on the first line. This can cause 
connections that result in no newsfeeds.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk