by I'm posting this article from sweetpea, my Linux 1.2.1 (Slackware 2.2)
Ambra Pentium. I installed the trn-nntp which I ftp'd from
ftp.cdrom.com (it was missing from my CD). After doing an "f" to post
a new article, writing it, then specifying "s" at the "Send, Abort,
..." prompt, inews says "no sysname in /etc/uucpname". I can't find
any documentation on that file. "inews" *does* seem to post fine, but
as you should be able to see the "From:" line address is invalid.
dynamic IP) account with a local Internet access provider with the
domain name io.com. My connection seems to work great (I can read
news, telnet, ftp, http, etc.). I just don't know how to set up my (I
news articles. Basically, I want to use Emacs' RMAIL and trn under
Linux the same way I use Eudora and WinVN when I boot MS Windows and
connect to my io.com account using Trumpet Winsock. Know what I mean?
I have Welsh's excellent book _Running Linux_, and I've tried reading
the _Networking Guide_ (http://www.linux.org), but I find it difficult
to understand all this stuff and those docs seem to be geared towards
people who want their Linux machine to be a "real", permanent Internet
machine.
Thanks,
Jamshid Afshar