Subject: Reading news from home 
   Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:33:57 GMT 
   From: lloyd@cdfpc.toronto.edu ("Lloyd Smith")

The news server CDF-PC uses has recently been reconfigured to allow
reading from outside of DCS. This means that students with Internet
access from other sources may read the CDF and CDF-PC newsgroups
from home.

To read from home, configure your news reader to use the NNTP
server "newssrv.cdf.toronto.edu". Naturally, exactly how to do this
depends on the software you are using. Check your owner's manual or
other documentation.

You will be able to read the approx. 75 groups in the heirarchy
ut.cdf.*.

Notes:

1> You will be able to read *ONLY* the ut.cdf.* heirarchy.
    Use your normal NNTP server to read other groups.

2> You will not be able to post through your software as the
    server will not accept external postings. To post, do as you
    would at CDF-PC, i.e. send mail to the newsgroup @cdf.toronto.edu
    (eg to post to ut.cdf.csc123h, send mail to
    ut.cdf.csc123h@cdf.toronto.edu).

3> A student pointed out the aliases in the "System Aliases"
    address book were incorrect. They have been corrected, so
    mail to just the newsgroup name will work for the groups
    used most often by CDF-PC:

        ut.cdf.csc104h   ut.cdf.csc108h   ut.cdf.csc148h
        ut.cdf.csc270h   ut.cdf.csc340h   ut.cdf.pc.announce
        ut.cdf.pc.general    ut.cdf.pc.gripes    ut.cdf.test

  It is still possible to post to any group carried by newssrv.cdf
   (the groups you see when you select "View all newsgroups") by
   sending mail to the newsgroup@cdf as above)

4> You will need a Internet account with an ISP, most likely
    from home or an employer. It is doubtful that you will be able
    to reconfigure the public access machines in various places on
    campus.