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- From: bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom)
- Subject: Re: [Q] UseNet on Linux
- In-Reply-To: vince@halcyon.com's message of 23 Dec 92 16: 58:46 GMT
- To: comp.os.linux
- Message-ID: <9212231810.AA27198@slate.src.honeywell.com>
- Posted-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 12: 10:18 CST
- Sender: postmaster@src.honeywell.com "originally from: slate.src.honeywell.com "
- Organization: mailEnteringNews at Honeywell SRC
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:10:18 GMT
- Received-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 12: 10:20 CST
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- vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) wrote:
- >robc@Newbridge.COM (Rob Craig) writes:
- >>I'm looking for documentation on how to get Linux setup for a UseNet feed.
- >>I've installed SLS 0.99 and it seems to have most of the necessary items
- >>(eg. elm, trn, uucp) but I need more documentation on how to use some of
- >>them. I've got no problem with reading news and sending mail locally, but
- >>I don't have a clue how to setup for a feed.
- >>...
- >
- >...
- >
- >If you can drop about $25.00, the O'Reilly+Asociates book "managing
- >uucp and USENET" is that best one I've found. You can also read the
- >news.admin and news.software hierarchies since you apparently have other
- >access to USENET.
-
- I second the ORA book nomination - but be absolutely sure you get the
- most recent edition (mine is dated 10/92 and is about 75% thicker than
- the editions other people here have). It covers CNews fairly well,
- from where I stand.
-
- >[..Peter, if you're reading...is there a way to come up with a set of
- > extremely optional disks for SLS where we could provide this
- > kind of information ???..]
-
- Yes, please. How about 'd' for documents or 'm' for miscellaneous.
-
- Pete Bergstrom
-