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Apple II Email and Usenet News Suite
Subscribing to a Newsgroup
This section outlines the steps for subscribing to a newsgroup.
For example, suppose you want to subscribe to newsgroup comp.sys.pdp11
.
- The first step is to add a new line to
NEWSGROUPS.CFG
for the newgroup subscription.NEWSGROUPS.CFG
is found in the email root directory (/H1/DOCUMENTS/EMAIL
using the example settings.) StartEDIT.SYSTEM
and use theOpen Apple
-O
command to open the file/H1/DOCUMENTS/EMAIL/NEWSGROUPS.CFG
. - Using
EDIT.SYSTEM
add a line to the file consisting of the newsgroup name, a space, the name of the mailbox you want to use to store messages, another space and the digit 0. For example, we may decide to use mailbox nameA.S.PDP11
for this newsgroup:
alt.sys.pdp11 A.S.PDP11 0
- Save the file with
Open Apple
-S
and quitEDIT.SYSTEM
withOpen Apple
-Q
. - Run
EMAIL.SYSTEM
and use theN
(new mailbox) command to create the mailbox your chose in step 2 above (ASP11
in this case.) - Use the
Closed Apple
-R
command to runNNTP65.SYSTEM
and retreive messages from the newly-subscribed newsgroup.
When the 'last message' field of the newgroup is zero, NNTP65.SYSTEM
will download the most recent 100 articles from the newsgroup. It will then set the most recent article counter in NEWSGROUPS.CFG
so that subsequent runs will retrieve new messages only.