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ClariNet e.News sample articles via NNTP

Most World Wide Web browsers have the ability to read Usenet news directly. If you can set your browser up to do it, this is the best way to read the ClariNet e.News samples, which are distributed in the free newsgroup biz.clarinet.sample. However, it can be difficult to set up.

You will need to find a site willing to let you read news from their "NNTP server". (This is a computer service that speaks the "Network News Transfer Protocol".) Many organizations have their own internal NNTP servers, in which case it may already be specified for you. Ask your system administrator if you can read news from a local NNTP server.

If not, there are free NNTP servers on the Internet. However, it would probably be easier to either find a regular newsreader and use that (if you can), or look at the most recent sample articles here on the ClariNet WWW server.

Most UNIX browsers use the NNTPSERVER environment variable to specify where to look for news. To set this, you need to know what kind of shell you have -- a Bourne-type shell (sh, bash) or C shell (csh, tcsh).

Bourne-type shell                  C-type shell

set NNTPSERVER server.site.com     setenv NNTPSERVER server.site.com
export NNTPSERVER
Other systems have their own ways of determining where to look for news. Check the documentation of your WWW client (such as Mosaic, Lynx, Cello, MacWeb, and so on).

If you're all ready to go, and you have an NNTP server set up in your WWW client, you can read biz.clarinet.sample. If you don't have something set up, you can go ahead and try it anyway -- it shouldn't hurt anything. You'll just get an error and have to go back.