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From: vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: Intro to gnus and NNTP
Message-ID: <552@atlas.tegra.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 17:22:08 GMT
Organization: Tegra, Inc., Billerica, MA
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I have some naive questions I hope some one can answer:

What is nntp?

Where can I get it?

What is it used for?

I originally thought that it was a way to remotely read news.  The
nntp server would do all the prefrobnicating and such and only ship
to the client the wanted articles.  It appears that it does a lot
more.  I also thought it was something special but I suspect it might
be what normally moves the news?

I currently use GNU emacs rnews.  I would like some of the features of
gnus but I am not sure how to configure it to work.  It seems to want
a nntp server or something.  I think there is a way to run it directly
on the spool files but I don't know how to make it do so.

I work on a network of Suns, with two central cross mounted servers.

Thanks...

"Sag mir wie die Zeit ist" -- Tiny lights
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