🚀 go-pugleaf

- hi; in dipspc article, <1201953774snz@nospam.demon.co.uk>,
        pete@nospam.demon.co.uk reminisced fondly:
>
>As I'm sure I recall the late Kenneth Williams once saying:
>
>   "Quiet in here, innit?"
>
>but that just reveals my age...

	- or a degree of infamy, perhaps...

>No matter; the reason for this post is to find out if (a) anyone
>else is still here

	- possibly...

>and (b) if so, they have any experience of using GremNOS with news
>servers other than the struggling one at Demon Towers.

	- yup, i believe so;
>
>I've been thinking for ages of subscribing to news.individual.net 
>and the recent (and it would seem ongoing) problems with news.dcu 
>have accelerated that thought.  As this is a subscribed service, 
>I'm assuming there will be some sort of login/authentication 
>required -- is this easily configurable in GremNOS?
>
>Any hints/tips/experiences gratefully accepted.
>
	- you do need to request newnews when you register on their
	wwwbsite (after is perhaps possible), and need to pay ten
	euros by plastic; you need to create a new bloc in nntp.dat
	of froups you wish to collect thence under a line detailing
	the news server and the date and time you last completed a
	download of news from them: see and save your current nntp.
	dat elsewhere, for the format.

	- you can then switch to this server at the net prompt by
	typing nntp add <$foo> <interval><enter> where <$foo> is
	the fqdn of the server, <interval> the number of seconds
	between attempts to download - and to then start download-
	ing by nntp kick<enter> - nntp & kick may be abbreviated
	to n & k respectiwiggly; switch back to demon's server with
	nntp add news.demon.co.uk <interval><enter> or to a thrid
	newsserver by specifying its fqdn instead (having previously
	fettled an nntp.dat bloc peculiar to it).
	  an interval of 500 worked well enough for me, but might
	prove a trifle enthusiastic, were you interested solely in
	the doings of denetzens of dipspc...

	- n l<enter> returns your currently set newsserver and the
	count to the next timed kick - "0" = currently connected,
	or attempting to connect. other nntp commands exist, but
	are disremembered by this correspondant; see disview...

	- you can, of course, set news.individual.net (if this be
	the fqdn) as your default newsserver and cease to call on
	news.demon.co.uk's services completely; pcelm/oak's .rc and
	individual username.rc in ~\spool\news\ and the nntp add-
	server line in your ~\autoexec.net will need modification;

	- n.b. other newsservers may well *not* provide a news2mail
	gateway, so either retain the demon gateway in your news.rc
	(etc.), or switch to "direct posting" in snews (john wash.)
	(and others?).

	- hth, hand - tdwsc!

	- love, a ppint. happy to have even half a shop open again
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