Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sci34hub!eng3!felton
From: felton@eng3.UUCP (Ed Felton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: News-type program for Novell networks?
Summary: Heres a thought or 2...
Keywords: what I am thinking of doing...
Message-ID: <703@eng3.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 90 21:35:47 GMT
References: <77015.275e0e27@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Reply-To: felton@eng3.sci.com (Ed Felton)
Organization: SCI Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
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Roger Hadgraft writes:

I've asked a couple of times in the past for a News type program which runs on
Novell networ{s, but haven't had much in the way of responses, except that
others are also interested. I'd like to have the features of Internet News
available in a Novell environment to encourage local discussion on various
matters (eg. network matters, DOS, MS Windows, curriculum matters, etc). I don't
need Internet access, just the same facilities locally. It needs to have the
ability to support multiple threads of conversation, and have a reasonably easy
to use interface (although this would have to be the lowest priority at the
moment). Any ideas?

==== My Reply ====

Roger, How about getting FSUUCP?  I have experimented with it, and found that
it will play in a NOVELL environment, and if you put the SPOOL directory and
stuff onto a server drive, and allow users to set up envirnoment variables etc
on each of their machines, to access the stuff. It has a very nice "RN" style
user interface to it's readnews program. it also has postnews, and mail support
although the mail would probably be cleartext and acessable by all. (maybe not)

Email me for more info, and  I can put you in touch with FSUUCP's author!

Ed Felton
felton@eng3.sci.com