> > 
> > Offline reading then is possible e.g. with exmh.
> 
> And with tin too ??? 
> 

Dont know. The versions available for RBSD I guess dont. The version 
running on a hpux does it.

> BTW, what I would like to know: Will you then be able to use any newsreader,
> or is it only possible with newsreaders that support a local news dir ?

Only any newsreader that supports local news dirs.

> > Sadly I know no way for offline posting of news. I guess for this you have to 
> > set up a complete newsserver on your machine :(
> 
> Is this a real solution ? I mean, AFAIK, when newsservers talk to each other
> then a different protocol is used compared to simply fetching/posting. 
> So will the newsserver allow it ?


A real newsserver will allow it, but tin is no newsserver. It's only a
good newsreader.
Either you try to compile slrn (someone wrote about it) or you try to 
install a complete newsserver like INN, but this seems to be a to big
overkill for this problem, even because INN is everything then easy to
install.

Ciao, Peter