Subj : Re: Newslink Issue
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : kyonshi
Date : 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)

Basically I think I did everything from the newslink.txt file in docs
(also the one in the wiki), I created the message area on the BBS, I
configured the newslink.cfg file to include both the name of the server
I want to connect with (I tried two different ones, right now
eternal-september.org is in there) and gave my user credentials. I also
created the entries for the message areas in the .cfg file, set the flag
behind them to i, and removed the DISABLED from the beginning of the file.
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.
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