NNTP

The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) is an application protocol used for transporting Usenet news articles (netnews) between news servers, and for reading/posting articles by the end user client applications.

Usenet was originally designed based on the UUCP network, with most article transfers taking place over direct point-to-point telephone links between news servers, which were powerful time-sharing systems. Readers and posters logged into these computers reading the articles directly from the local disk.

The tildeverse has a small, private net news network that can be accessed through several tildes using clients below. tilde.club and yourtilde.com provide public access for users outside of the tildeverse, or those who want access without first connecting to a tilde server.

Participating tildes
The following lists all of the known tildes that provides access to the tildeverse netnews.

tilde.club
Our primary gateway for those accessing from the outside. Read-write, accessible via,  , and  , port 119. See also https://news.tildeverse.org/.

tilde.team
Read-only, accessible via,  , and  , port 119. You have to ssh inside to post.

cosmic.voyage
Read-only, accessible via  and , port 119. You have to ssh inside to post.

yourtilde.com
Read-write, accessible via, port 119.

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.

SeaMonkey
The instructions for SeaMonkey are mostly the same as Thunderbird. The difference is that if you already created an account in SeaMonkey (whether for mail, RSS, or news), you create a new account by using either of the two options. Both of them will bring you to the Account Wizard.
 * Go to the  menu, -&gt;
 * Go to the  menu, -&gt; , -&gt;