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  • Where Would I Define a News Server in "nn"?

    From Chime Hart@chime@hubert-humphrey.com to news.software.nn on Wed Jan 4 14:53:44 2023
    From Newsgroup: news.software.nn

    Hi All: Trying to get started in nn, some searching provided an answer about fully qualified domain names. But now, if you please, I need to know where to input my news-server? I tried putting it in a /nn/init. I even tried coppying my trnrc to .nn, but none of these netted anything. Thanks so much in advance Chime
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  • From Marco Moock@mo01@posteo.de to news.software.nn on Fri Jan 6 11:54:41 2023
    From Newsgroup: news.software.nn

    Am 04.01.2023 um 14:53:44 Uhr schrieb Chime Hart:

    Trying to get started in nn, some searching provided an
    answer about fully qualified domain names.

    For what do you need this?
    You can let your NNTP server/provider choose the message id, so no FQDN
    for is required for your computer.

    But now, if you please, I need to know where to input my news-server?

    https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/nn/nn.1.en.html

    |The news server to use can be overridden by setting the environment
    |variable $NNTPSERVER to the name of the system (such as
    |news.newserver.com), or by setting the variable nntp-server (on the
    |command line only, since it is looked at before the init file), as |"nntp-server=news.some.domain").

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  • From Ray Banana@rayban@raybanana.net to news.software.nn on Mon Sep 18 06:42:44 2023
    From Newsgroup: news.software.nn

    * Chime Hart wrote:
    Hi All: Trying to get started in nn, some searching provided an answer about fully qualified domain names. But now, if you please, I need to know where to
    input my news-server? I tried putting it in a /nn/init. I even tried coppying
    my trnrc to .nn, but none of these netted anything. Thanks so much in advance Chime

    nn uses the NNTPSER environment variable.

    EXPORT NNTSERVER=your.news.server && nn should take you to your preferred server.

    To permanently set this environment variable, add the following statement
    to your ~/.profile

    EXPORT NNTPSERVER=your.news.server

    hth
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