jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) (10/10/88)
From article <511@dutrun.UUCP>, by tnphhbu@dutrun.UUCP (Hans Buurman): > > In order to have news on a system without using the large disk space > required, we have done the following: > [....] > So now we can read news, but we cannot post it. To do so, there are the > following problems: > > Inews needs to be changed, so that it does not write to the active file > or tries to record news locally, but just mails the news to our real > news node. It's temporary files cannot be put in /usr/spool/news, because > that is mounted read only. Why not use nntp? -- _____ Jonathan Knight, || JANET: jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs / Department of Computer Science || UUCP: ...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan / _ __ University of Keele, Keele, |+------------------------------- (_/ (_) / / Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K. || If in doubt, panic!
tnphhbu@dutrun.UUCP (Hans Buurman) (10/13/88)
In article <205@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes: >From article <511@dutrun.UUCP>, by tnphhbu@dutrun.UUCP (Hans Buurman): [ description of remote mounting the news directories ] >Why not use nntp? Sorry. Every now and then somebody new enters the wonderful world of news and gets lost. Could you tell me (and perhaps others like me) what nntp does ? Perhaps even better, could anybody list all the possible ways to read news ? Or is this information available elsewhere ? Maybe some of you would like to debate which is the best way to read news (:-) ? Thank you. Hans Buurman (tnphhbu@dutrun.uucp, mcvax!dutrun!tnphhbu, hans@duttnph.uucp, mcvax!dutrun!duttnph!hans) Disclaimer: my ignorance is not that of my employer.