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Article #482Re: Can I change servers with nn?
From: David Librik
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:01
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:01
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acbhour@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Rudi van Houten) writes: >In <BxMC3p.J86@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jjz34245@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Wendell Gee) writes: >>I would like to use nn to connect to a remote news server. Is there a way >>I can set that up being a regular user? Or are the operators here the only >>ones that can change that? >You'll need the the system guys on both the machine you use and the remote >news server. This is very unfortunate. Using RN or XRN you can just "setenv NNTPSERVER new.machine.address" and off it goes. This is useful when your site has several news servers. Would it be easy to add this feature to NN? - David Librik librik@cory.Berkeley.edu "Most of the misery and unpleasantness of USENET is directly attributable to RN."
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!agate!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!librik From: librik@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David Librik) Subject: Re: Can I change servers with nn? Message-ID: <librik.722246510@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: nntp@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (NNTP Poster) Nntp-Posting-Host: cory.berkeley.edu Organization: University of California, at Berkeley References: <BxMC3p.J86@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <3317@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:01:50 GMT Lines: 17