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title nntp
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author lucitoast
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breadpunk has a local-only NNTP server available. NNTP (Network News Transfer
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Protocol) is a protocol designed for the same use cases as forums and mailing
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lists, except everything is federated. It is usually better known as Usenet or
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simply as newsgroups.
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Our NNTP server is however not connected to the rest of Usenet. Tildeverse.org
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should provide a [news server](http://news.tildeverse.org/) for interested
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tildes, but it is currently announced as down, so our server is completely
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alone. It currently has the following groups:
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* `local.test`: A default group from our server software which you can use for
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various testing purposes.
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* `bread.general`: For all general discussions, when something does not fit any
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other group.
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* `bread.recipes`: For sharing all your bread recipes!
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* `bread.meta`: Discussions about breadpunk.club itself.
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* `bread.nomic`: Discussions about the game of Nomic
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Before joining the news server, it is strongly recommended to read some of the
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typical [Usenet guidelines](http://lol-russ.umn.edu/webruss/WebRuss/russ1102/comphelp/netiquet.html).
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## slrn setup
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To reach our server using `slrn`, a rather simple news reader allowing you to
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use your own editor of choice to post, you can use a similar process as the one
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described on the Tildeverse server:
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1. Get a sample `.slrnrc` file from the project on Sourceforge:
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`wget -qO ~/.slrnrc http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn.rc`
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2. Edit `~/.slrnrc`
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3. Uncomment (remove the leading `%`) the line defining `username` and set it
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to your bakername
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4. Uncomment `hostname` and set it to `breadpunk.club`
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5. Uncomment `realname` and set it to whatever you want to have as your real
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name: it will be displayed in all posts as
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`From: realname <username@breadpunk.club>`
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6. If your editor of choice is Vim, uncomment the `set editor_command` line and
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set it to `vim '+set tw=72 cc=+1 +%d '%s'`. This will help you with the 72
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character line limit of newsgroups and display a visual cue of this limit;
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see `:help textwidth` and `:help colorcolumn` in Vim to learn more.
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7. Set up slrn by running `slrn --create`.
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8. Use the arrow keys to browse the list of groups and press `s` to subscribe or
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`u` to unsubscribe. Unsubscribed groups have an uppercase `U` next to them.
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9. Save your subscriptions and close by pressing `q` then `y`.
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You can later run `slrn` to view your subscribed newsgroups and read, post or
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reply to articles. If you prefer to use a [magic tunnel](/docs/magic-tunnel/) to
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access the newsgroup from a local client, you will want to forward port **119**.
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