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[Serene]

Does anyone know about usnet?How to use it in linux ?Thankz!!!

[Hermit]

Originally posted by Serene:
Does anyone know about usnet?How to use it in linux ?Thankz!!!

First of all you need to familiarize yourself with newsgroups. Try dejanews and do a looksee. I use newsgroups all the time for information about any topic you can think of. There are excellent newsgroups pertaining to Linux. What mail program are you using? If you are using Pine, I can help you configure it to pick various newsgroups of your choice. Please reply email as I only check this board a couple times a week.

Regards,

Dick

[DodgeTrucs]

Speaking of newsgroups in Linux, I generally just surf them at www.deja.com, (http://www.deja.com,) but when I used Outlook Express it automatically knew my news servers and all the information, I have Road Runner Cable in the Central Florida area. Is there an easy way to gether the server information required by similar Linux news readers? Without calling the ISP? In a slightly related note, is there a program or utility in Linux that can give the information given in 'winipcfg' in Windows9X? IP, hostname, etc. I sure as hell don't miss Outlook but that was a neat quick tool.... Thanks
Charlie

[fancypiper]

I use pan. It's included with gnome.

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