Re: using news

1998-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
G. Crimp wrote: > So, I need to be on-line to read ? If I wanted to read > off-line, I would need to maintain a local news spool, > which is part of the server, therefore I need to be running > a local server as well ? Yes, though there are a few alternatives - there's a program called suck that

Re: using news

1998-01-04 Thread dg
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, G. Crimp wrote: > So, I need to be on-line to read ? If I wanted to read > off-line, I would need to maintain a local news spool, > which is part of the server, therefore I need to be running > a local server as well ? Hi! If you are now looking for a real-easy-to-configu

Re: using news

1998-01-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
G. Crimp hat gesagt: // G. Crimp wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 05:10:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > Not normally. Typically, a reader doesn't download all articles in a group, > > it just downloads a summary of the articles in the group (so it can display > > a list of articles with t

Re: using news

1998-01-04 Thread G. Crimp
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 05:10:51PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Not normally. Typically, a reader doesn't download all articles in a group, > it just downloads a summary of the articles in the group (so it can display > a list of articles with the subject and the author, say). Then, it downloads >

Re: using news

1998-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
G. Crimp wrote: > The reader then goes and gets all the messages for those interesting groups. Not normally. Typically, a reader doesn't download all articles in a group, it just downloads a summary of the articles in the group (so it can display a list of articles with the subject and the author,

using news

1998-01-03 Thread G. Crimp
I'd like to set up some kind of news system on my Debian 1.3.1 system. I've been looking at the various *.deb packages that came on my InfoMagic CD. I'd like to understand how news works before I go about deciding what packages to use. I checked out the HOWTO's, but the news howto is