9 Feb
2018
9 Feb
'18
12:19 a.m.
On Feb 8, 2018, at 8:02 AM, John H. Reinhardt via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2/8/2018 9:56 AM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
Thanks! If it?s recommended by Hoff, that?s good enough for me. :-) I had to rebuild
?tin? as the version in the ports for OpenBSD doesn?t seem to work. I?m now connected and
reading through comp.os.vms. :-) It?s good to see how many of the folks I remember are
still there.
Zane
You might try
<http://www.eternal-september.org> . I don't know if tin will work, but it's
recommended by Hoff and others. It's free and reasonably frustration free. They have
had a couple server hiccups in the last year though. I use it via Thunderbird on my Mac
without too much trouble.
Apparently tin will work. It's listed under their "FAQ" section as possibly
needing a special tweak.
tin
add the following line to the .newsauth file in your home directory (or create the file,
if it doesn't exist) and make sure the file is only readable and writable for your
user (chmod .newsauth 600):
news.eternal-september.org password username
and start tin with the -A option