Q:  Where can I find the news reading software (Usenet NetNews)?

A:  The sources for B News 11 (also known as B News 2.11) are available from UUNetÐuunet.uu.netÐby anonymous FTP.  Likewise, the sources for C News, for rn, for Notes, and for various other news reading and posting software.  Look in the news directory (e.g., the pieces of B News are files in the directory news/bnews-2.11.)

The sources and the programs are unsupported, and they may need to be tailored to run on NeXT computers.  Configuring a NetNews feed is a complex process that should only be attempted by an experienced UNIX system administrator.  Please note that NeXT Technical Support does not provide any support for NetNews configuration.

Some additional sites that have rn and other associated software are listed in ../NEXTSTEP/Miscellaneous/anonymous_ftp_archive_sites.rtf.

Q:  Are any NeXTstep news reading applications available?

A:  An application called NewsGrazer is a NEXTSTEP front end to news reading.  It provides an interface similar to NeXT Mail and allows posting of articles with multiple fonts, images, documents, etc.  It's available at the NeXT-specific archive sites (see ../NEXTSTEP/Miscellaneous/NeXT_specific_archive _servers_and_ftp_info.rtf for more information).  NewsGrazer can make reading news much easier [though, if you're a frequent reader of UseNet and the comp.sys.next.* newsgroups, you are very much aware that this is subject to debate :-)!Ðed.]  However, it does not set up a ªnews feed,º the mechanism needed to send or receive news to or from other sites.  You'll need to have a news feed set up, as described above.

NewsGrazer is an unsupported application.

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