Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!dutrun!tnphhbu From: tnphhbu@dutrun.UUCP (Hans Buurman) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: inews mailing news without recording it Message-ID: <515@dutrun.UUCP> Date: 12 Oct 88 21:10:35 GMT Article-I.D.: dutrun.515 References: <511@dutrun.UUCP> <205@kl-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: tnphhbu@dutrun.UUCP (J.Buurman) Organization: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Lines: 20 In article <205@kl-cs.UUCP> jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) writes: >From article <511@dutrun.UUCP>, by tnphhbu@dutrun.UUCP (Hans Buurman): [ description of remote mounting the news directories ] >Why not use nntp? Sorry. Every now and then somebody new enters the wonderful world of news and gets lost. Could you tell me (and perhaps others like me) what nntp does ? Perhaps even better, could anybody list all the possible ways to read news ? Or is this information available elsewhere ? Maybe some of you would like to debate which is the best way to read news (:-) ? Thank you. Hans Buurman (tnphhbu@dutrun.uucp, mcvax!dutrun!tnphhbu, hans@duttnph.uucp, mcvax!dutrun!duttnph!hans) Disclaimer: my ignorance is not that of my employer.