Dear all:
Since I'm now sort of in road warrior mode--a big change for a lab rat like me, but fun so far--I went out and bought a Blackberry 8900. It has just about everything I want, once I found an acceptable text editor/file browser (BBFileScout). One glaring exception--it has no NNTP reader! It laughingly calls its RSS gizmo a 'newsreader'. *Faugh*.
Any Blackberry folks out there with *real* newsreaders?
Cheers
Phil "have gun, will travel" Hobbs
On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:03:23 -0400) it happened Phil Hobbs wrote in :
Perhaps you know that Usenet is based on a text interface, and just like email, can be accessed any time with a simple text based telnet client: For example, to read the latest article in sci.electronics.design using telnet, you can do:
# telnet nntp.aioe.org 119
Trying 94.75.244.51... Connected to nntp.aioe.org. Escape character is '^]'.
200 aioe.org InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.4.4 (20060818 snapshot) ready (posting ok).group sci.electronics.design
e..
Well, you said: "An UC3843 would suit if it were voltage controlled instead of current". Read the link to the post again=B4. . ^] q
telnet, you can do:
Jan,
Thanks, I feel so much better off now...;) All I need is a Telnet client for a Blackberry.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
On a sunny day (Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:14:59 -0400) it happened Phil Hobbs wrote in :
Yes, was afraid you would say that.... Did not very long for me to google it 'telnet client blackberry' though:
May try that one on my own new phone.
gh*.
There is a free BB java app to READ usenet. My recollection is it was not set up to post to NNTP, so I uninstalled it. It is very annoying that google doesn't allow it's interface to usenet to work on the BB browser.
You can tether your BB as a modem. It is free though unsupported on T- mobile. I believe AT&T has a tethering charge. No idea about CDMA BBs.
I just posted a message to this group from my blackberry using Opera mini. Just log into
Why telnet?
Cheers! Rich
try searching for blackberry+nntp
I can confirm this ssh + telnet client works on my Nokia GSM, just tried it, very nice and fast, now I can control my server from anywhere in the world via the mobile phone :-)
I realize this followup is very late, but in case you still need it (and for others with the same question), I never did find a good newsreader (nntp) for BB, but you can install BBSSH , log into your home machine remotely and use slrn or some other console-based newsreader. Works like a charm for me.
href="
Thanks, I'll have a look.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
(Down in NOLA helping my daughter move into her first apartment, on Dauphine Street. Cool place.)
*Faugh*.
">BBSSH
AFAIK the G2 news client is worth checking for suitability.
Have something to add? Share your thoughts — no account required.
Ask the community — no account required