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Re: Dear NNTP users,
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:26:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Steve Bliss wrote:
In lugnet.admin.general, Tim David wrote:
Having spoken against NNTP (actually not more for the Lugent web interface) I'm
going to try it out, especially if someone further down-thread has suggested
some software!

If you're running Windows, you can try Forte's Free Agent.  That's what I used
for years.

Steve

Strangely, thats what I just downloaded!
I've come back here for some advice
The setup requires the Mail: (SMTP) Server. Is this for my mail account? if so
I'm assuming a Hotmail account won't work?
I checked on the Outlook Newreader, It doesn't ask for this but does ask for a
Reply Address which I'm not sure what to put.

Help!

Tim



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
(...) If I remember correct you can leave the SMTP empty, it's only used if you reply to a message by email instead of to the newsgroup. Reply address should always be your regular email address, so people can email you if they want to reply in (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
(...) Yes. Free Agent allows you to reply via email to messages. So it needs to know where to send email. (...) It won't if Hotmail doesn't allow you to send email via SMTP. (...) That should be whatever address you want people to send private (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Dear NNTP users,
 
(...) If you're running Windows, you can try Forte's Free Agent. That's what I used for years. Steve (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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