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Pine is not recommended for reading Usenet news. For reading
and posting news, you should use one of the system
newsreaders, like 'rn', 'trn' or 'tin' (the 'tin' newsreader
is discussed in the document Getting
Started With Your WAM Unix Account), or use an offline
newsreader such as Thunderbird, Outlook or Outlook
Express.
Click here for general
information on the supported newsreaders.
If you wish to read and/or post news from Pine, you'll first
need to configure Pine to be able to see the newsgroups. To check
this, login into Pine and choose "Folder List"
from the main menu. If you get two areas, a
"Folder-collection" and a "News-collection", you have the
ability to see the news. If you don't see both areas, go back
to the main menu (M), then type 'S' (Setup), then 'C'
(Configure). You'll be placed in a list of options you can
change in Pine, the seventh item being "news-collections".
This will probably have the value "<No Value>". To
change this: type 'A' (Add), then type:
*{news2.wam.umd.edu/nntp}[]
Type 'E' (Exit) to quit configuration screen:
Answer "Yes" to the question about saving the changes.
Note: Enter the string exactly as shown above; simply entering
the correct news server in the field will NOT enable Pine to
post news to that server. (If you don't do it right Pine will
probably give a warning.)
Once you've made sure Pine is configured correctly, you can refer
to the document How to read
and post Usenet news from Pine to use Pine for news.
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