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Grex Info Item 299: Want to read Usenet through Pine... [linked]
Entered by souma on Wed Feb 26 20:31:44 UTC 1997:

I'm trying to read Usenet through Pine.  How do I do this?  It seems I need
to enter a server name or something into something or the other.  Help is
appreciated...

18 responses total.

#1 of 18 by kami on Wed Feb 26 21:07:37 1997:

Hi there!  Wow, life in this conference, amazing...
Unfortunately, this cf is more for academic questions than for technical
ones.  I don't think there *is* any way to read usenet newsgroups on Grex,
through Pine or in any other way.  If you want to see what has been said
about it, try !help news or !help rn to see what response you get.  Good luck.

#2 of 18 by souma on Wed Feb 26 22:21:22 1997:

Okay.  Thanks.  Byebye.

#3 of 18 by valerie on Thu Feb 27 16:31:09 1997:

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#4 of 18 by kami on Fri Feb 28 02:12:42 1997:

Wow!  I didn't know that.  Read but not reply?
I thought there used to be specific help commands which got you the relevant
commands.  Changed the proceedure?  Things seem to be getting easier, I guess.
Thanks.

#5 of 18 by souma on Fri Feb 28 18:51:35 1997:

Hey, I just wanted read stuff, I don't mind if I'm unable to post anything.
Thanks for the address.

#6 of 18 by valerie on Sat Mar 1 05:52:40 1997:

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#7 of 18 by kami on Sun Mar 2 04:35:18 1997:

what's the difference between the man page and the help file?  I thought
that !help X got you to the manual page for X.

#8 of 18 by valerie on Sun Mar 2 15:10:21 1997:

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#9 of 18 by kami on Mon Mar 3 03:35:26 1997:

Valerie, I wish you were getting paid for the immense amount of remarkably
valuable work you've done.  Thanks again.

#10 of 18 by valerie on Mon Mar 3 14:32:31 1997:

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#11 of 18 by peteza on Tue May 20 01:39:36 1997:

Is it possible to use pine to get newsgroups, if so how do you provide a
username and password for the server to allow you to connect. I'm still
trying, but not having much luck. Thanks.

#12 of 18 by pfv on Tue May 20 02:59:34 1997:

        try using yer local university as a server. Netscape already
        has support for news, why would they tie up a local BBS for that?

#13 of 18 by valerie on Tue May 20 04:34:09 1997:

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#14 of 18 by jared on Sun Jun 1 20:43:21 1997:

I've heard lots of bad things about dejanews about problems propogating into
them.. :/

Perhaps that's fixed now.

#15 of 18 by kami on Sun Jun 1 21:03:20 1997:

Dunno.  What's dejanews?

#16 of 18 by valerie on Sun Jun 1 23:08:47 1997:

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#17 of 18 by kami on Tue Jun 3 17:27:22 1997:

Ah.  A biiiiig time sink...<g>

#18 of 18 by bmoran on Fri Jun 13 18:25:26 1997:

Dejanews is avail. without typing anything on grex. well, just lynx
anyway. The pointer is on the internet page, hot picks section. It's a new
link (thanks srw), along with cnn headline news, yahoo, mel, and
altavista. Read away!

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