newsserver

plural newsservers

1. InternetA server for newsgroups.

   If alt.os.linux.fedora is added, your newsserver isn't perfect but still, well, Okay.

   2013 August 9, X. X. Sputnik, “Test for your newsserver.”, in alt.free.newsservers (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025

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   Support host names on the right hand side of the ';' in the NEWSSERVER environment variable. If you have NEWSSERVER set to ';foo', then the network address of ``foo will be looked up, and the /etc/services file will be consulted for a ``NeWS service.

   1987 June 7, s...@pixar.uucp, “patches to psterm and libcps”, in comp.windows.news (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025

   Basically, local newsgroups were setup on a different machine than our USENET gateway, and one has to talk to the rtech newsserver to get USENET, or one of 2 other machines to get different sets of local newsgroups.

   1988 April 20, Rich Salz, “v14i056: VN NNTP conversion kit”, in comp.sources.unix (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025

   My maximum speed is 200 kb/s when I download over the internet. My newsserver is Newshosting.

   2004 January 24, Supafly, “Why is Agent 1.93 slow in getting Bodies from files?”, in alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent (Usenet), archived from the original on 09 Dec 2025