I've been reading the list for some time now, a long time yarn user,
and have gotten a lot of good tips here. Now I need some help and I'm
sure that this list is the best place to ask for it.
My service provider was the first to offer commercial access in
Thailand, and always has made it easy for shell account users to use
yarn for email and ng's. We have a specially designed program or
script online which automates the gathering of news and mail into a
soup packet, very handy. Unfortunately our news feed to the local
server has been deteriorating, and I want to read news from a
different server. However I'm unable to use the automated process in
this case, because the local server is coded into it.
I tried changing the NNTPSERVER setting in my shell, started tin and
was able to read quite readily from a different server. Of course this
action changed my .newsrc file which was a small problem when I
changed the setting back to the local server. I'm thinking that I
could rename .newsrc to something else before changing news servers,
but will a new one be created when I connect to the different server
or must you have a .newsrc file first?
The next problem of course, is knowing the commands or possibly a
script that will do for me what the automated process is doing on the
local news server. I need to understand the "uqwk" process and the
parameters it needs. Any pointers to a faq or something on this, or
maybe someone has a simple script that could work in my situation?
Thanks very much for any advice.
Oh, one more small question I've been meaning to ask here. I have this
list filtering into a pseudo ng, and it properly converts my article
into an email to the list address - but the Newsgroups: list.yarn line
is left as it is. Isn't it supposed to be changed to
X-Newsgroups: list.yarn? I've had to manually edit it out.
Brian Jackson
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