Accessing USENET
HOW TO ACCESS USENET USING NETSCAPE: If clicking on the above link fails,
try this: Pull down the Edit menu of Netscape and select Preferences..
Then, select category "mail and groups". Under that category, select
"groups" or "news" depending on your version of Netscape. Finally,
configure cscnews.albany.edu as the default news or discussion group
server.
To access USENET from emacs, give the command ESC-X gnus. You
will have to configure cscnews.albany.edu as the news server unless this
has already been done by your system administrator. One way to do
the configuration yourself is to put in your home directory a
file named .emacs that contains the line:
(setq gnus-select-method
'(nntp "cscnews.albany.edu"))
Then, restart emacs (for simplicity's sake, and for testing that this configuration
change will work). Those of you who took CSI311 or otherwise learned
LISP will recognize this!
How to configure pine to read news:
From the top level menu, select S (setup) and from the setup menu,
select L (collectionList)
From the SETUP COLLECTION LIST page, select A (Add cltn)
From the FOLDER COLLECTION LIST page, enter:
NEWS (or other favorite nickname) after Nickname:
cscnews.albany.edu/service=NNTP after Server:
#news. after Path:
Press Control-x to save/exit this edit.
From the SETUP COLLECTION LIST page, select E (Exit Setup)
From the main menu, select L (Folder List)
From the Collection List, select NEWS (or other favorite nickname you
gave above), under which should be News groups on cscnews.albany.edu/service=NNTP
From the folder list of newsgroups, select A (Add) and add sunya.class.csi333
if it is not there already.
Select sunya.class.csi333 and read and post (using C) messages as you
would for email.
Please let me know if there are
problems with these instructions!