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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: reading netnews in GNUemacs
Message-ID: <BOB.89Jan23172042@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 89 22:20:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: ecphssrw@solaria.csun.edu's message of 19 Jan 89 21:29:29 GMT

In article <444@solaria.csun.edu> ecphssrw@solaria.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes:
   In article <361@mqws2.fed.FRB.GOV> m1tag00@fed.frb.gov (Tim A. Grunwald) writes:
   >We have been using Gnews to read netnews from spool files for the
   >last month.

   Oh really?  I'd be most interested as to how, assuming you're
   running version 2.0.  I've never succeeded in getting this version
   to work with spool files.

Here is our gnews-2.0/site.el, which does what you probably want:

	(setq gnews-spool-machine "tut.cis.ohio-state.edu")
	(setq gnews-organization "Ohio State Computer Science")
	(setq n-reply-allowed t)
	(setq gnews-machine (system-name))
	(if (not (string-match "\\." gnews-machine))
	    (setq gnews-machine (concat gnews-machine ".cis.ohio-state.edu")))
;; the most important part:
	(setq nntp-service nil)
	(setq news-mode-map nil)
	(load-library "gnews/Init")

While I'm impressed with gnews' flexibility, I'm depressed by its
speed.  I've switched to GNUS 2.10.