Newsgroup Instructions

In unix,

• Open up an xterm
• Once you have a prompt, type pine
• If you've never opened pine before, a greeting will be presented which can be exited by typing 'e'
• Scroll down to 'setup' and hit return
• Type the letter 'c' for config
• Scroll down to nntp-server hit return
• Type for that value: "news.berkeley.edu" without the quotations, and hit return.
• Type the letter 'e' to exit setup, and type 'y' to agree to commit the changes.
• Scroll down to "Folder List" and hit return.
• Scroll down to News on news.berkeley.edu and hit return
• Type the letter 'a' to add a newsgroup, and type "ucb.class.cs61a" without the quotations, followed by hitting return.

From: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ajaffe/cs61a/cs61aNewsgroupInstructions.html