NNTPSERVER=server.name; export NNTPSERVER
or for csh:
setenv NNTPSERVER server.name
What public server will you use? Only one I've tried is
news.uni-stuttgart.de, anyone else have good suggestions?
(West of the Atlantic would be nice...)
Does your ISP really provide no access to usenet at all? Or just no
nntp server? There are two different flavors of uqwk, one for nntp
and one using a news spool on the local machine. Mabye the later
would work for you? (uqwk source is at ftp.gte.com/pub/uqwk, compile
with just Makefile instead of Makefile.nntp)
Good luck...