NNTP

A small usenet community.

https://news.tildeverse.org/

As of 2020-04-14 news is back up!
You’ll need a news (NNTP) client to read news. The address is, and it is open to the internet at large. Thanks to ~deepend for getting it set back up!

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

First, add  to your shellrc  and source it.

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

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

pine/alpine
pine can read news; this http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Help/News/PineNews.html might help. You can also read the FAQ from U Washington.

In Pine do


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

Emacs
in emacs] can read news, but you better know emacs] first before you start.

lynx
lynx] reads news, a la. 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.


 * 1) Go to the   menu, -&gt;
 * 2) Under   click
 * 3) Select “Newsgroup Account”
 * 4) 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.
 * 5) For the “Newsgroup Server” type  . 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.
 * 6) Right click on “news.tilde.club” in your accounts list and click
 * 7) You should see a dialog with a tree of news topics. Click one and click   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.
 * 8) To post to a topic, open the topic and click the “Write” button.