sshurr@wellesley.EDU (Scott Shurr) (05/01/87)
I'm seeking help in installing/using the rnews feature of Gnu emacs. I'm relatively new at UNIX, so please forgive my ignorance. We're using a vax/ultrix system, and are only connected to the network via CSNET. We receive the USENET news via the redistribution to ARPANET. The way it works now is that ARPANET sends each news group to a separate alias on our system. Sendmail then sends each message to a bulletin board system that we use here for local messages. I took a look at rnews.el and paths.el and get the impression that what should happen is that sendmail should be configured to send the news messages to a program called inews, which will put the messages into the news-path directory from which they can be read by rnews. Is this right? If this is the case, where can I get the inews program? Can someone let me know how these parts should all work together? Thanks in advance for any help anyone out there can offer. --Scott Shurr sshurr@wellesley.edu