[comp.emacs] Reading News

mike@turing.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) (05/04/87)

Having looked at the rnews program for GNUemacs, I have a question.

Before I go hacking the code to pieces, does anyone know of a simple way
to make rnews use rrn (remote rn) which connects to NNTP?

We are a bunch of workstations which use a central news server, via NNTP.

					Michael I. Bushnell
					a/k/a Bach II
					hi!turing!mike@hc.dspo.gov

rlk@athena.mit.edu (Robert L Krawitz) (05/04/87)

Since 18.41 has code for maintaining TCP connections, you could
implement NNTP in emacs lisp and talk directly to the server.  In
fact, I was thinking about doing this until thesis (*) got in the way.

* thesis (the' sis) A medieval form of torture in which the subject's
brain is ground up and smeared on the computer console.  Outlawed on
the grounds of cruelty during the Inquisition.

Robert^Z

fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (05/13/87)

I will be very interested in whatever comes of an effort to produce
an NNTP reader client for emacs, and I will be glad to answer any
questions that a developer might have.

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!usenet	usenet@ucbvax.berkeley.edu