Meaning of newshost | Babel Free

Definitions

A host of a newsgroup.

Internet

Examples

“# If you aren't running a distributed news system (nntpd & rrn, usually), # leave NEWSHOST blank. Else set it to the name of the host from which you # can rcp a copy of the active file. NEWSHOST=”

“After installing this version, I want to bounce news that is received via uucp to my secondary newshosts.”

“I have an ELISP (emacs lisp) program that uses a news-reader (GNUS) and tries to connect out to a newshost server via NNTP.”

“The VLF have just noticed that the root post has been erased from the comp.os.vms archives on several newshosts - so it goes, so it goes, the consciousness and conscience of the VLF will always be repaired.”

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