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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.uoregon.edu!symiserver2.symantec.com!news.central.com!news From: tedm@central.com Subject: Re: Need help with INN and newsfeed X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 Reply-To: tedm%toybox@agora.rdrop.com Sender: news@news.central.com (Usenet Netnews) Organization: Beaverton Location, Peter Norton Group Message-ID: <DGIwHy.KCs@news.central.com> References: <45p3an$qfa@uuneo.neosoft.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 04:01:09 GMT Lines: 20 In <45p3an$qfa@uuneo.neosoft.com>, seiffert@neosoft.com (Mark Seiffert) writes: >I have a machine setup with FreeBSD 2.0.5-Release and INN 1.4-sec and >I am having problems getting a news feed. I am connected to an ISP and >can get news via Free Agent under Windows and trn under unix but I >want to get the news delivered to my unix box at night so that I can >read it during the day. I seem to have inn setup correctly, and when >I run ppp, login and run rc.news, inn says it is connecting to the ISP >and then nothing happens. I have spoken with the ISP and they say >that they have to configure their end to send me news and that there >is an extra charge for this because of the amount of work involved. > >I have been able to pull news from their system, using nntpget (i >think), and would like to know if there is a way to get inn to get the >news from them without an additional charge. My current newsfeed >entry for them is; > There is a program called "slurp" that is a replacement for this, and works well. It has some instructions on how to set it up with INN.