# 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

Always run `tin -g localhost`.

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](https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S2.1) 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.