05-21-2002
Regardless of the server, if it runs the NNTP service (the news server), you should be able to use just about any news reader.
My favorite is slrn.
My home machine dials out at 3:00 AM each morning to grab new posts in the newsgroups I read using slrnpull, and spools them to my local drive. I can then read and respond offline (so I don't tie up my phone line!), then update at will, or just wait until 3:00 for it to update on it's own.
It's very highly customizable and quick (uses the console - no need to wait for some X app to load).
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subscriptions
SUBSCRIPTIONS(5) InterNetNews Documentation SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)
NAME
subscriptions - Default recommended subscriptions
DESCRIPTION
The pathetc/subscriptions file contains a list of newsgroups that is returned by the NNTP command LIST SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Clients that support this command usually send it the first time they connect to a new news server. They use the returned list to
initialize the list of subscribed newsgroups. The subscriptions file therefore should contain groups intended for new users, for testing,
or that contain FAQs and other useful information for first-time Usenet users.
The syntax of the subscriptions file is trivial; it is a simple list of newsgroup names, one per line. The order of newsgroups may be
significant; the news reading client may present the groups in that order to the user.
EXAMPLE
A typical subscriptions file may look like:
news.announce.newusers
news.newusers.questions
local.test
local.general
local.talk
misc.test
misc.test.moderated
news.answers
news.announce.newgroups
This gives the client the FAQs and question newsgroup for new users first, then a local newsgroup for testing and various commonly-read
local discussion groups, followed by the world-wide test groups, all the FAQs, and announcements of new world-wide newsgroups. If there is
a local new users group, one might want to list it first.
HISTORY
Written by Bettina Fink <laura@hydrophil.de> for InterNetNews.
$Id: subscriptions.pod 8822 2009-11-20 17:34:15Z iulius $
SEE ALSO
nnrpd(8).
INN 2.5.2 2010-02-08 SUBSCRIPTIONS(5)