Article 11108 of ucb.class.cs61c:
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From: Frances E Uku <feu@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: ucb.class.cs61c
Subject: How to Use Pine To Read & Post to Newsgroups
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 23:55:55 -0700
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Hello 61C staff,

You can't possibly understand how much I'm enjoying this class already
-- the website is nicely populated, and huumble as our prof might be, we
all know the *real* reason why 61C is ridiculously over-subscribed this
semester :)

Someone asked me for help in 271 Soda today, and I realised that many
people don't know that there is a simple way to read the newsgroups
right in your Pine mail session.  Here are quick setup instructions if
you can't be bothered or are having trouble using trn.

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Open up Pine session as normal.
Hit S for Setup to configure your Pine options.
Enter C for Config at the prompt
Scroll down with the arrow keys to the field that reads nntp-server and
Hit Enter
Enter agate.berkeley.edu and hit Return to accept
Hit E to exit Setup, and then hit Y to accept changes.
(you should get a message saying Configuration changes saved)
Hit Q to exit your Pine session.

When you start a new pine session and hit L to see your folder list, you
should now have
two folders that look like this:

Mail
    Local folders in mail/

News on agate.berkeley.edu/nntp
    News groups on agate.berkeley.edu/nntp

Scroll down with the arrow key until the second folder (News) is
highlighted, then
hit Enter.
Hit A to Add a newsgroup
Enter the newsgroup name you would like to add, such as ucb.class.cs61c,
then hit Enter. (you should get the message 'Subscribed to
ucb.class.cs61c')

You can now use the arrow key to select ucb.class.cs61c, hit Enter, and
see all the newsgroup messages!  Read and post messages as you normally
would with Pine!

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Well, that was my contribution for the week.  Hope it was helpful.  Do
feel free to publish on the course website if you'd like -- maybe it'll
generate more newsgroup posts.

--Frances E. Uku
feu@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu