> I am looking for a fully automatic way (event from FrontDoor) to logon to 
> my ISP and download selected usenet groups. This MUST be a DOS program as 
> the bbs system does not have Windows or will ever have it installed. A 
> fellow sysop mentioned that IREX could do this.... but could not tell me 
> how it can be done the Irex docs also don't give any info on setting up for 
> NNTP.
                     
Look under the gating setup section.  At the end, there's even a quick
guide on how to do various tasks, and setting up a newsgroup to gate is one
of them.  (This assumes you're using a fairly recent version of Rex.)

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