Grenzland forum

The forum is also a net news server. The forums command runs tin. By default, this shows an empty screen because you haven’t subscribed to any group.

Use y to show all the groups. grenzland.club is the last one in the list.

Use s to subscribe to a group. Use it to subscribe to grenzland.club. From now on, running tin shows you this group, if it has new articles.

Use r to show the unread subscribed groups, too. Use this if there are no new messages in grenzland.club and you want to add a new one.

Problems with the spool

EDIT: The workarounds mentioned below are no longer necessary. The spool directory is set to the right path in the system configuration now. No need for a -g flag anymore. In fact I find it notably faster to read from the spool instead of port 119.

Always run tin -g localhost. EDIT: no, this is works, but is superfluous now.

If you tin without the -g option, it seems to work at first as you’ll see a bunch of newsgroups but then you cannot read any articles and you’ll see an error about tin being unable to open the directory containing the articles. You can fix it with the TIN_SPOOLDIR environment variable, but will it work? Maybe not! See the FAQ of our news server software.

Note that tin saves information per server name. Therefore, you can use either tin -g localhost or tin -g grenzland.club but whatever you do, stick to it.