* Jos? Romildo Malaquias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is it possible to have usenet news access by normal email?
> I would like to receive news articles as email messages
> and I would like to archive them. Is there a solution to this?
> My connection to the Internet is not too fast so sometimes
> its painful to read news from deja (via Web).
>
> Any hints?
Yes. There are a few alternatives, the one I use is a lightweight,
simply option called fetchnews. Can't remember where I got it,
but it's on freshmeat (sig). It's actually written in perl =)
You simply run it like fetchmail and it drops usenet messages into the
local spool. I then use procmail to archive them in appropriate
folders.
It's nice and easy to use. I have a .fetchnewsrc in my home directory
containing:
server my.isp.news.server
delivery smtp myusername
And you create blank files in ~/.fetchnews named with the newsgroups
you want to keep up to date with:
$ ls ~/.fetchnews
alt.humor.best-of-usenet
That's it. It'll download new messages each time it's run.
Tom.
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