On Sun, 10 Apr 2022,
erase@tilde.team wrote:
My name is Erase and this is my first Usenet post! I hope this
actually gets made and that I didn't mess it up lmao
Post visible on Tilde.club? CHECK (seen on local spool)
Post visible on Tilde.team? CHECK (seen on NNTP)
Posted from Tilde.team's INN? CHECK (path: [posted] Tilde.team -> Tilde.club)
Posted in correct group? CHECK (tilde.team, the miscellany of
Tilde.team pubnix server and their users)
So, yeah; looks good to me. Welcome to Tildeverese NetNews, a distributed bulletin board for Tildeverse- which runs on the same protocol as USENET.
(Not-so-)Random protip for SLRN:
- SLRN is a traditional newsreader; it focuses on giving you a rundown
of unread articles, which you read through, and every items read
will be automatically marked "done" and "begone!" (actually: hidden)
once you finished each newsreading session.
- If you started SLRN and it just shown you a blank list, don't be alarmed;
it just meant that you have no subscribed newgroups with unread posts.
- If you have already subscribed to some newsgroups,
pressing `l` (lowercase) will toggle visibility of subscribed groups
which have no unread posts.
- If you hadn't explicitly subscribed to any newsgroups,
you may list every newsgroups on the server by pressing `L` (uppercase),
enter an `*` wildcard, and press Enter.
- Newsgroups with `U` flag in the front are ones that you
haven't subscribed to:
- Pressing `s` (lowercase) will subscribe to that group
- If you would like to subscribe to groups in wholesale fashion:
press Esc, followed by `1`, followed by `s` (lowercase),
type in the wildcard, and press Enter.
- You would see that `U` flag disappeared from group(s) you subscribed.
- The number you see in front of each newsgroup is the number
of unread posts; seeing 0 doesn't mean the group is empty,
it just meant there's no unread post inside them.
- If this happened after you subscribed to newsgroups for the first time,
it just mean SLRN hadn't fetched any posts; press `G` (uppercase)
to fix all of that.
- If for some reason, SLRN listed the group you're sure that there are
posts in them as having 0 [unread] articles (this happens a lot),
you can "start over" by selecting that group and press Esc
followed by `u` to mark everything in it unread.
- Do not press `c` in newsgroup list unless you really intend to mark
every existing posts in the selected newsgroup as read (i.e. begone!).
- By default, SLRN will NOT show posts already/automatically marked as read
from prior newsreading session. You can see them by going back
to the newsgroups list, press `l` to toggle-show the groups
with no unread article, and go back into the same newsgroup again:
you would now see them with `D` flag in the front.
Or, if you would like to start over with this group,
press Esc followed by `u` (lowercase) to mark everything
in this group unread (thus showing them again).
- If you have read a post, and would like it to still stay intact
on the next newsreading session, you can either mark it unread again
by pressing `u`, or pressing `*`. (The latter has a better effect
that it distinguishes to the eye that you have seen it, but that part
only lasts during current view of the newsgroup; later than that,
it only have the same effect as `u`)
- If you found newsgroups' descriptions to be wonky, exit SLRN,
run `slrn -d` , and start SLRN again.
- If you have custom terminal colors (like me) and would not like SLRN
to deflower it, run SLRN in no-color mode using `slrn -C-` .
- IMPORTANT: Press `f` (lowercase) to reply to a post on Netnews;
this action is called "follow-up". DO NOT USE `r` unless you really meant
to reply *privately* via email. I have received more than couple of
Netnews-replied-as-emails which their posters didn't mean
to sent them that way.
Heads up:
- Note that there are other kind of text-based newsreader
which don't exhibit aforementioned idiosyncrasies;
one of them is Alpine (which you may already know as an email client).
- Also, some modern desktop email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird/Iceowl,
Claws Mail, and Sylpheed also support Netnews; they inherently have
an email-like post handing behavior and local caching,
which means they are not affected by these idiosyncrasies as well.
(You could connect through SSH tunnel if you want to use these [1])
Wish you a good old Netnews time,
~xwindows
P.S. Tilde.team's Netnews server is yet to carry a newly-introduced
`tilde.bsd` newsgroup; I will trying to get this fixed
as soon as I finished dealing with this issue on Tilde.club.
[1] If you really don't want to use SSH with those, an alternative is
connecting them to news.tilde.club (which is a public gateway
of Tildeverse Netnews).
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