On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 05:53:30PM +0000, Tom Gilbert wrote:
> * 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.
> --
And is it capable of posting news?
Thanks.
Romildo
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Prof. José Romildo Malaquias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Departamento de Computação
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Brasil
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