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title: usenet news

You'll need a news (NNTP) client to read news. The address is `news.tilde.club port:119`, and it is open to the internet at large.

News clients

slrn

slrn is a newsreader; see http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ for details.

First, add `export NNTPSERVER="localhost"` to your shellrc (`.bashrc`, `.zshrc`) and source it (`source path/to/.shellrc`).

Then run `slrn --create` to create the slrn config file, and lastly `slrn -d` to populate group names.

You're now ready to run `slrn`! If the list is empty, press `L` (for list-groups) and enter `*` in the field for all groups. You might need to enter each group (pressing `space`) to get a proper count for how many (if any) unread messages there are.

pine/alpine

pine can read news;

this tutorial might help.

You can also read the FAQ from U Washington

In Pine do

'S' for setup, 'C' for config, then
set 'NNTP Server (for news)' to news.tilde.club
Then go back to the main menu, and pick Folder List,
A for add, ^t for list

Emacs

`M-x gnus` in emacs can read news, but you better know emacs first before you start.

lynx

lynx reads news, a la `lynx news://news.tilde.club/tilde.general`. It can even post news, but you have to design your own headers.

tin

There is also tin

Thunderbird

If you're using Thunderbird for email, it can also be configured for news.

Go to the `Tools` menu, -> `Account Settings`
Under `Account Actions` click `Add Other Account...`
Select "Newsgroup Account"
Type in the name you and email address you want associated with your posts. This can be your real name and tilde.club email address, or any other name (like your tilde username) and any other email address.
For the "Newsgroup Server" type `news.tilde.club`. Give it a name ("news.tilde.club" works fine), confirm a couple of times and you're done! You should see a new entry for news.tilde.club in your accounts list.
Right click on "news.tilde.club" in your accounts list and click `Subscribe...`
You should see a dialog with a tree of news topics. Click one and click `Subscribe` to subscribe to the topic. When Thunderbird is running, it will periodically check for new messages to each of these topics. You will also see a list of topics in your accounts list with unread counts.
To post to a topic, open the topic and click the "Write" button.

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