From: gmkeros@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/4/2024 3:38 PM, MRO wrote:   
      
   > you mean you want access to the usenet backbone? vert does not carry the   
   usenet backbone.   
   >   
   > You would need to put a server and username and password into your newslink   
   cfg file. You can then assign those usenet msg areas to areas  you created on   
   your   
   > bbs   
   >   
   > I use astraweb   
      
   I have configured the newslink.cfg file, but I used a user account for   
   my server. Do I need to peer with another usenet server to be able to   
   use it? (yes, the backbone, I am trying to access another nntp-server in   
   this case)   
      
   Basically I think I did everything from the newslink.txt file in docs   
   (also the one in the wiki), I created the message area on the BBS, I   
   configured the newslink.cfg file to include both the name of the server   
   I want to connect with (I tried two different ones, right now   
   eternal-september.org is in there) and gave my user credentials. I also   
   created the entries for the message areas in the .cfg file, set the flag   
   behind them to i, and removed the DISABLED from the beginning of the file.   
   I touched newslink.now in the DATA folder and... nothing happens.   
   I can access the newsgroups locally with tin and post on them, but they   
   don't fetch articles from other servers.   
   And I don't really know why they don't.   
      
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