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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