Subj : Re: Newslink Issue
To   : kyonshi
From : MRO
Date : Fri Jan 05 2024 10:03 am

 Re: Re: Newslink Issue
 By: kyonshi to alt.bbs.synchronet on Thu Jan 04 2024 03:59 pm

> From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
>
> On 1/4/2024 3:38 PM, MRO wrote:
>
> > you mean you want access to the usenet backbone? vert does not carry the
> > usenet backbone.
>
> > You would need to put a server and username and password into your
> > newslink cfg file. You can then assign those usenet msg areas to areas
> > you created on your
> > bbs
>
> > I use astraweb
>
> I have configured the newslink.cfg file, but I used a user account for
> my server. Do I need to peer with another usenet server to be able to
> use it? (yes, the backbone, I am trying to access another nntp-server in
> this case)
>


set up the areas to dump into your msg subs.
> I touched newslink.now in the DATA folder and... nothing happens.
> I can access the newsgroups locally with tin and post on them, but they
> don't fetch articles from other servers.
> And I don't really know why they don't.

use jsexec to run them and look at the error msgs.
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