I also did the same thing as you yesterday but from this howto

http://news.aioe.org/article.php3?id_article=18
also can i use any news server not just aioe?
what about the one that comes with my ISP?

my problem is that

a) I am runnunig a mail server with postfix and keep getting this eror message>

-rw-r--r-- 1 news news 82 2006-06-29 10:51 /var/log/news/news.crit
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Server running
Allowing remote connections
Parameters c 10 i 50 (0) l 1000000 o 1011 t 300 H 2 T 60 X 0 normal specified
Not reserved
Readers follow enabled
Perl filtering enabled
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Jun 29 10:51:23 xstation innd: SERVER cant listen RCreader Address already in use