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[01] WHAT IS USENET? HOW DO I GO ABOUT BEING A PART OF USENET?
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USENET consists of thousands of topic related "newsgroups". Submissions
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to these newsgroups propogate via internetworked news servers through
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out the world.
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From the UNIX shell, create a file in your home directory called
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.newsrc. Add the list of groups you want to read like this:
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comp.lang.lisp:
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rec.music.makers.synth:
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comp.os.cpm:
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comp.36bit.multics:
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comp.36bit.twenex:
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The popular news readers seem to be trn and tin. You can run either
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from the UNIX shell.
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Posting messages can be done from within a newsreader, or by using
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the "postnews" or "Pnews" commands.
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NOTE FOR PINE USERS!
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If you want to read news from within pine, set the NNTP server to be
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"news.sdf.org" Note that news can't be reached outside of sdf. However
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if you have a tunnel running (either via the MetaARPA or VPN memberships)
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you can connect to the news server.
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