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+[01] WHAT IS USENET? HOW DO I GO ABOUT BEING A PART OF USENET?
+     USENET consists of thousands of topic related "newsgroups".  Submissions
+     to these newsgroups propogate via internetworked news servers through
+     out the world.
+     From the UNIX shell, create a file in your home directory called
+     .newsrc.  Add the list of groups you want to read like this:
+       comp.lang.lisp:
+       rec.music.makers.synth:
+       comp.os.cpm:
+       comp.36bit.multics:
+       comp.36bit.twenex:
+     The popular news readers seem to be trn and tin.  You can run either
+     from the UNIX shell.
+     Posting messages can be done from within a newsreader, or by using
+     the "postnews" or "Pnews" commands.
+     NOTE FOR PINE USERS!
+     If you want to read news from within pine, set the NNTP server to be
+     "news.sdf.org" Note that news can't be reached outside of sdf. However
+     if you have a tunnel running (either via the MetaARPA or VPN memberships)
+     you can connect to the news server.
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