newshost

plural newshosts

1. InternetA host of a newsgroup.

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

   1990 March 12, Henry Spencer, quoting David Neal, “relaying news as mail”, in news.software.b (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025

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   # 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=

   1986 May 4, re...@decwrl.uucp, “arbitron program for news readership survey (see net.news.group)”, in net.sources (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025

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

   1990 September 18, Ricardo Cardenas, “running an NNTP program from crontab”, in comp.unix.questions (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025

   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.

   2021 September 29, Subcommandante XDelta, “VLF: The VMS Hobbyist life-support Communique, from the VMS Liberation Front”, in comp.os.vms (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025