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    From Dennis Collins@3:770/355 to All on Saturday, May 10, 2003 02:59:00
    greetings

    I am looking for a fully automatic way (event from FrontDoor) to logon to my ISP and download selected usenet groups. This MUST be a DOS program as the bbs system does not have Windows or will ever have it installed. A fellow sysop mentioned that IREX could do this.... but could not tell me how it can be done the Irex docs also don't give any info on setting up for NNTP.
    I tried NETTAMER but it does not support fully automatic operation and did also try NEWSGATE on the Internet system however this has the drawback that the bbs system then has to have network support to talk to the internet system, another software package that was tried was KA9Q but for some reason when I changed ISP's it refused to connect to port 119.
    Any and all help greatly appreciated.

    thanx in advance

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  • From Charles Cruden@1:342/806 to Dennis Collins on Thursday, May 15, 2003 09:05:07
    I am looking for a fully automatic way (event from FrontDoor) to logon to
    my ISP and download selected usenet groups. This MUST be a DOS program as the bbs system does not have Windows or will ever have it installed. A fellow sysop mentioned that IREX could do this.... but could not tell me
    how it can be done the Irex docs also don't give any info on setting up for NNTP.

    Look under the gating setup section. At the end, there's even a quick guide on
    how to do various tasks, and setting up a newsgroup to gate is one of them. (This assumes you're using a fairly recent version of Rex.)

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:11/200 to Dennis Collins on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 18:09:14
    *** Quoting Dennis Collins from a message to All ***

    I am looking for a fully automatic way (event from FrontDoor) to
    logon to my ISP and download selected usenet groups. This MUST be a

    Internet Rex can do this just fine, IIRC.

    Later,
    Sean

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    * Origin: Midnight's Hour - midnightshour.org - 618.529.9296 (1:11/200)
  • From MICHEL SAMSON@1:10/345 to DENNIS COLLINS on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 04:04:00
    Hi Dennis,

    About "usenet/NNTP" of May 10:

    I am looking for a fully automatic way (event from FrontDoor) to
    logon to my ISP and download selected usenet groups.

    One more answer has arrived today which is related to your request: ________________________________________________________________________
    I just read my copy of the Irex docs and it gives instructions for
    how to connect to the internet using DOS and it also deals with NNTP servers in a section called "News Server". The docs are long (129
    pages) and one needs PDF or Microsoft Word to be able to access them
    but the information is there.
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    Salutations,

    Michel Samson
    a/s Bicephale


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