Usenet netnews on GPU
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New users should read the "news.announce.newusers" newsgroup.
This newsgroup contains basic facts and information about USENET news.

Progams which can be used to read netnews:
	rn 	- the basic unix news reading program.
	trn	- the threaded version of rn.
	tin	- a simplified screen-oriented news reader.
	pine	- a screen-oriented news (and mail) reader.

Also available (for nostalgia buffs):
	readnews - a basic line-oriented news reader 

For more details about any one of the above, please consult the online
manuals via the "man" command (e.g. type "man rn" to get more
information about the "rn" program).  For further assistance, just
type "help me" at the 'gpu' prompt.  Try using "learn" if you need to
familiarize yourself with UNIX.

If any newsgroups seem to be missing from the current selection, send
an e-mail message to "newsmaster" to have the selection updated.

The mail.* newsgroups are, in reality, mailing lists which are being
fed into netnews.  Doing this means being able to have subscriptions to
high-quality but high-traffic mailing lists but without overwhelming an
average user's incoming mailbox.  It also means that the messages from
the mailing list can be read with a newsreader (ie. a program which
may be better suited to following different threads of discussions).
If there are any other publicly-accessible mailing lists which may be
of interest to a group of local users and if those mailing lists are
not already available via other newsgroups, please send a note to
"newsmaster" to try to arrange for a new "mail.*" group.