[news.software.nntp] What's the story on nntp feeds?

kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) (02/01/91)

I'm helping the administrator of an internet site that is still getting
its news by UUCP.  They aren't very sophisticated about news, and didn't
know there was another way.

I'm not much better.  I knew there was nntp, but not much about how it
works (lives on top of x.25? TCP/IP?) or how many nntp sites there are,
or how easy/hard it is to get a feed.  I would appreciate some help in
getting started.  Probably first thing is some general information like
the above about the world of nntp.  Even better would be the offer of
an nntp feed.

The machine this will go on is a Sun running version 4 of the OS.

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