[NTLUG:Discuss] Transition to new server

[Steve Baker]

Christopher Browne wrote:

> The NNTP server is www.ntlug.org; try:
> % telnet www.ntlug.org 119

Ahhh!  That's why I couldn't find it last night!

It's more conventional to name a news server "news.whatever.whatever" - the 'www' bit
means "World Wide Web" and implies that this is an http server rather than a news server.

Still, once you *know* that - it seems to be working just fine.
 
> The way I'm finding preferable to access it is thus:
> 
> % lynx news://www.ntlug.org
> 
> Lynx is hardly the ultimate news client, but it works, and requires
> little configuration...

Sure - and Netscape finds it OK too...although it *does* look a bit strange
to see a 'www.xxx.xxx' in that list of a half dozen 'news.xxx.xxx' addresses.

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