Netnews on Athena (AC-33)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Getting Started with Netnews
... Setting Up For Netnews
... Available News Readers
... About Subscriptions
... About the ~/.newsrc File
Determining What Newsgroups Exist
... Newsgroup Naming Conventions
... Suggested Subscriptions
Text-Based News Reader: rn
... Using rn
... Newsgroup-Level Options
... Article-Level Options
Threaded Text-Based News Reader: tin
... Using tin
... Newsgroup-Level Options \
... Thread-Level Options
... Article-Level Options
X-based News Reader: xrn
... Using xrn
... Add Mode
... Newsgroup Mode
... Read Mode
... Changing Your Subscriptions
... Warnings
Emacs-Based News Reader: gnus
... Initial Set-Up (additions to ~/.emacs)
... Using gnus
... Changing Your Subscriptions
... Help About gnus
... Newsgroup-Level Commands
... Article-Level Commands
... Variable and Hooks
... ... Newsgroup-Level Variables and Hooks
... ... Article-Level Variables and Hooks
Posting to Newsgroups
... Posting Netnews (How to...)
... ... Moderated newsgroups
... ... Distribution
... ... Using rn to Post an Article
... ... Using Pnews to Post an Article
... ... Using xrn to Post an Article
... ... Using gnus to Post an Article
... The Etiquette of Posting to the Net