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Re: newsgroup setup question (for Todd)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 18 Aug 1999 03:17:25 GMT
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
> Naji Norder <n.norder@computer.org> wrote:
> > I am trying to improve how I access the Lugnet newsgroups. I'm not happy
> > with how I read things now, but I'm not sure if what I want is possible.
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> I see a couple of additional options, which you may or may not like.
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> 1. Use a different newsreader to access lugnet. There's a lot of other great
> newsreaders for unix. You'll have to configure them to use a file other
> than ~/.newsrc, of course.
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> 2. Or, configure pine to use different newsrc files. Launch pine with
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> pine -newsrc-path=~/.newsrc-lugnet
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> (I think that's all you need to do; I'm not a regular pine user....)
> You can set up an alias, of course, so you just have to type "lugnet".
That's what I do with slrn - I use it with 4 different news servers.
slrn is great - best newsreader I've ever used.
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| (...) I see a couple of additional options, which you may or may not like. 1. Use a different newsreader to access lugnet. There's a lot of other great newsreaders for unix. You'll have to configure them to use a file other than ~/.newsrc, of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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