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

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Chime Hart

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Jan 4, 2023, 5:53:50 PM1/4/23
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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

Marco Moock

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Jan 6, 2023, 5:54:42 AM1/6/23
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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").

Ray Banana

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Sep 18, 2023, 2:42:45 AM9/18/23
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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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