A small usenet community.
As of 2020-04-14 news is back up!
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. Thanks to [[../~deepend|~deepend]] for getting it set back up!
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 http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Help/News/PineNews.html 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|emacs]]] can read news, but you better know [[[#emacs|emacs]]] first before you start.
lynx
[[[#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
Toolsmenu, ->Account Settings - Under
Account ActionsclickAdd 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
Subscribeto 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.