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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:32:50 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-07-13, Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> wrote:
> On 2016-07-13 14:50 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Have you looked at inews?  The man page is a bit vague, but its
>> configuration file has a spot to configure an NNTP server.
>
> But what/where/how is inews?  There's no inews package in gentoo.
> Also:
>
>  [5+0]~$ e-file /usr/bin/inews
> No matches found.

I thought it was part of inn, but I may be wrong:

  https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-nntp/inn

You might be able to get slrn or tin do what you want, but it's not
obvious how from their man pages...

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