RE: Signing on for newsgroups

From: Lemire Dave (LEMIRED@bah.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 12:42 -0500

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>I have a mixed shell/ppp account with my ISP, and can access mail
>and newsgroups automatically using NET-TAMER (for DOS). The
>reader is not very convenient for making folders, and after
>having discovered YARN, this is the reader I want to use for all
>my mail and news.

I agree, YARN is a vastly better reader than NetTamer.

>Unfortunately I am only able to send/receive MAIL through my
>shell account, and have not been able to access any newsgroups.
>Any advice on how to sign on will be highly appreciated.

NetTamer uses NNTP to access the news server, and so you need something that
does two things:

1) talks to the news server with NNTP
2) creates the files that make up a SOUP packet.

Probably your best bet is a program call UKA_PPP, unless you want to use
something that runs under Windows. Unfortunately, I don't have the URLs
handy here, but I'm sure someone on the list can point you to a web or FTP
site.

- DaveL

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