On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:51:29PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > I recently noticed that I have a news deamon running on my potato. I have > > never really used news. It has seemed to me to be an alternative to mailing > > lists that I didn't need because mailing lists seemed quite adequate for the > > purpose. But with my new email setup (mutt/fetchmail/exim) I am confronted > > with > > a constant stream of warning messages from the news deamon because it was > > never > > properly configured. I wouldn't know how to configure it. Do I need news? > > Errm, news is client-server like everything else. Clients don't install > any daemons, AFAIK. If you have a daemon running, you must've installed > a news server package at some stage. No, you don't need a news server. > You may want to install news client and have a look at newsgroups > available on news.yourisp.com -- that might answer your next question. > > > This list, and a few other Debian lists serve me quite well. What would I > > gain? > > Am I really missing something great? > > alt.sex.pictures? alt.tasteless.penis? > Thanks for clear view of where the messages are coming from. I have removed inn2 which came as part of mpack.
Is the addressing scheme for news like that for URLs? Are there really TLDs with such names? ;-) -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
