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From: abair@turbinia.oakhill.uucp (Alan Bair)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Qusetion about nntp capabilites
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Date: 7 Oct 89 00:01:25 GMT
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Organization: SPS CAD, Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas.
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Where I work, we currently NFS mount the .../news directory
on those machines that will provide access to News.  I have
recently been using the GNUS news reader under Emacs, which
makes use of nntp.  To get this working I had to define where
the active groups list was along with several programs for
posting.  So I am using both nntp services and an NFS mounted
.../news directory.

What I would like to know is if the nntp service provides all
access to data needed to read/post News, so that the NFS
mount would not be needed.  It may be that I have misunderstood
the installation of GNUS or it actually needs both.  If nntp
can provide all the data needed, are there News readers like
rn that can make use of this?

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but I have been unable to
find any good source of information about nntp.

Alan Bair
SPS CAD
Motorola, Inc.
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