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NEWSSETUP.DOC
This is really only a note. Once you have the rest of UUCP
working and get a news feed (by having another machine sent
news to you), you should edit the file 'UULIB:Newsgroups'.
This file contains a list of newsgroups you wish to receive,
one per line.
The program 'ANews', originally part of William Loftus's 0.60 News
distribution, can be used to read news. News is placed in separate
directories in the UUNEWS: directory.
As I said, really aweful documentation eh?
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WHERE DOES NEWS GO?
News goes into UUNEWS: unless you overide it with a Config entry
like this:
UUNews barf:somedirectory
If you leave it at UUNEWS: then you must make sure UUNEWS: is
Assign'd to the appropriate directory. The Assign is normally
done from your startup-sequence.
There is a config entry to specify your feed site. This should
be set to your feed site which must be directly called from
your site:
NewsFeed fubar
Note that you do NOT specify a full domain name for the site name.
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WHAT NEWSGROUPS DO I GET
You get the newsgroups your feed sends you (you have to tell
them what you want), and you must also list the groups in the
file UULIB:NewsGroups . Any newsgroups you receive that are
not in UULIB:NewsGroups are placed into the UUNEWS:Rejects
directory.
If problems develop and you find yourself deleting UUNEWS:Rejects
often, I suggest making a crontab entry (see the documentation
for DCron) that deletes the directory and its contents automatically
every so often.
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HOW IS NEWS TRANSFERED
News is transfered by UUCP. Your feed site will send you the
news compressed. It will be run through the RNews program
automatically which uncompresses it and splits it up into
separate articles, creating any necessary directories, and
placing said articles in those directories according to the
newsgroups each article is destined for. Currently we do not
handle articles posted to multiple groups very well, this may
cause some confusion at some future date.
When you post news (via ANews), a UUCP request is setup to transfer
your article back to your feed site, currently uncompressed and
unbatched.
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READING NEWS WITH ANEWS
ANews is pretty much self explanatory. There are a few problems,
such as it not being able to figure out the size of the window it
is run it. That particular problems is semi-fixable by
specifying '-r rows -c columns' on the command line or in the
script file that runs anews.
Refer to the online help within ANews... which you probably
can't reach until you get stuff comming through your news feed.
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POSTING NEWS
ANews now has appropriate commands to reply to and post news.
From inside ANews 'p' posts news and 'r' or 'R' replies to news
('R' includes the text of the message you are replying to). You
can also invoke ANews with the -p option:
1> anews -p comp.sys.amiga
To post an article. Again, this assumes your feed site understands
news.