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In article  <6r41pmFfdu6cU1@mid.individual.net>
           dump@damen.co.ku "Colin May" writes:

> I use ntp1 and ntp as my time servers; and they worked fine using KA9Q
> running in MSDOS 6.22.  Before the changeover, the news would always start
> flowing immediately.

How odd.  Which ROMP do you use?  Here it takes anywhere from a 
minute upwards to get a time response; I originally thought that 
it might be a DNS lookup problem, but plugging in a dotted quad 
directly (not recommended) makes no difference.  I too am running 
plain DOS 6.22 -- no MS Windows on this box!

> Since the changeover, of course, my KA9Q set-up has not been able to access
> news from Demon.  I know the reason for this but have not been able to
> discover whether KA9Q can be used to access the news or, if so, how the
> set-up can be changed so that it can be used to down load news from Demon.
> I have an account with Individual Net but cannot discover how or if KA9Q is
> able to do an authentication of a third party news service.

To the best of my knowledge, the Demon supplied KA9Q net.exe does 
not have the capability to authenticate the news connection, nor 
collect news by article number.  I use GremNOS (a drop in replacement 
for net.exe -- Simon will be here soon to provide a download link) 
but I think that YAN too can handle this.  NIN allows you to get 
news via NEWNEWS, all you need to do is grab a GremNOS net.exe 
and change the nntp command in autoexec.net from

nntp addserver news.demon.co.uk 600 

to

nntp addserver news.individual.net 600 user yourNINname yourNINpassword

I believe too that the new Demon offering doesn't support 
mail2news (which the Demon snews does by default) -- for this you 
will need GremNOS or YAN (and manually fix your outgoing posts to 
mail2news@dcu or download a JohnWash version of snews that can do 
direct posting to news).

> I have read all the information that I can find on the matter, both
> contained in the Demon package and from on-line sources.  So far, I have not
> come across any information on whether it is possible or if so what changes
> to make to the set-up.  Neither has a great deal of experimentation with
> net.exe commands yielded any results other than error messages.
> 
> Any assistance on this you could offer would be much appreciated.
> 
> I have made several postings to this group and also demon.service through
> someone else's set up; and none of them appear to have arrived.

That sounds like it might be a mail2news problem.  But rest 
assured that with the right net.exe and snews.exe you can receive 
and post to news via NIN.  Please post again if you're still 
having a problem or can't find the apps required -- someone will 
help.

Pete

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