RISC OS - Internet - Setting up Newshound

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Setting up NewsHound

The first time you run NewsHound, it will ask you for a news hostname and nickname. Use your ISP's news server as the hostname, and pick a three letter combination for the nickname (I use 'def', short for 'default', but it doesn't matter). If you ever wish to change the hostname, it is in the file !NewsHound.Config.***Group, where *** is the three-letter nickname.

Now load NewsHound, and open Configure... from the menu. You can leave most of it as it is, but you want it to check a system variable, PPP$Connected; and you want it to fetch on load and quit on finish.

If you have multiple ISPs, I highly recommend you only collect news from one server (e.g. I only collect from news.argonet.co.uk), as the logistics of multiple news server downloads is very complicated - too complicated for me! Note however you can only log into a news server when connected to the right ISP - so I have to dial into Argonet to log onto news.argonet.co.uk.