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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!no.such.domain!conrads From: conrads@no.such.domain (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: news.software.readers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: UNIX remote NNTP newsreader suggestions needed Date: 20 Jun 1996 00:11:34 GMT Organization: Sirius Cybernetics, Sirius City branch Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4qa4vm$dp6@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.152 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.readers:27871 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21665 I'm kinda new at this, having just installed FreeBSD on my Windows 95 box, so excuse me if any of the following sounds dumb. :-) What I'd like is a way to read news from my ISP via NNTP over a 28.8K dialup connection *without* having to download the entire list of groups every time I start up my newsreader. I'm beginning to suspect this is not going to have a simple solution, or am I mistaken? I tried doing a make of trn from the FreeBSD ports collection, but got hopelessly lost in the long configuration dialog. Is it possible to just grab a compiled package from somewhere and plop it onto my system, or does it have to be customized for each installation? Is an external news transport system an absolute must? Do I have to, in effect, become my own news admin? Again, these questions may sound stupid to you seasoned UNIX pros out there, but I'm just learning this stuff right now. If there *is* a reader that will let me download the active file a single time and then just update it on each connect, a la News Xpress and a host of other readers for Windows, *please*, *please* tell me what it is, where to get it, etc. This tin is driving me crazy! :-) Thanks! -- Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads