Re: Usenet today on Fedora

I didn't even think it would post
I was surprised
Was my first post
Surely not the last though

On 2025-03-17, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

Keanu Clark wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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Today I have managed to get connected to usenet
on Fedora by following these steps
1. Navigate to https://www.eternal-september.org
2. Create and Account, using existing email
3. Get login details from email, password included
4. sudo dnf install slrn
5. export NNTPSERVER=snews://news.eternal-september.org:563
(added to .bashrc) [edit for 80 char limit]
6. Add the following to ~/.slrnrc (change info to yours)
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nnrpaccess "snews://news.eternal-september.org:563" "username" "passwd"
set username "johndoe"
set hostname "google.com"
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7. slrn -f ~/.jnewsrc --create

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X-Slrn: Why use anything else?
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