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From: lennartb@lne.kth.se
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is netnews available under VAX VMS?
Message-ID: <24.25b44f42@lne.kth.se>
Date: 17 Jan 90 09:56:00 GMT
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In article <1981@dover.sps.mot.com>, cowan@spanky.sps.mot.com writes:
> I hope this isn't a naive question.
> 
> I am looking into integrating netnews under the three major computer
> platforms that we use.  So I wonder if anyone has gotten the netnews
> applications to work on a VAX VMS.  Or, how other shops have solved
> the problem of giving VAX VMS users access to netnews.
> 
> Has anyone ported "rrn" to a VAX VMS running tcp/ip?  (This seems to
> be doable (is it?), and it would also seem to be an elegant solution - ie,
> have the NNTP server running on a Unix platform, and have VAX VMS
> users access news via rrn.)
> 
> Anyone ported vnews, or postnews to the VAX (VMS)?
> 
> -AC
>  Andy Cowan
>  cowan@soleil.sps.mot.com
>  (602)821-4942

We're running VMS NEWS from Geoff Huston, Australian National University.
His address is gih900@csc.anu.oz.au. It uses NNTP.

/Lennart