Re: Reading Usenet in LYNX?

Its interesting,
when I hit enter on your examples, I got a malformed news url error,=20
stating no server specified.



On Tue, 23 Jun 2026, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Hi Chime,
>
>> lynx news.us.easynews.com
>
> I=E2=80=99ve got a bit of success-ish with both:
>
> lynx nntp://news.us.easynews.com
>
> and
>
> lynx news://news.us.easynews.com
>
> Success as in, it asks for a username (which I don=E2=80=99t have).
>
> From earlier experience reading GMane news with lynx, you
> don=E2=80=99t need *any* configuration and it will just work with
> any site that runs an actual NNTP/Usenet server.
>
> Good luck,
> //mirabilos
> --=20
>> Wish I had pine to hand :-( I'll give lynx a try, thanks.
>
> Michael Schmitz on nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k
> a.k.a. {news.gmane.org/nntp}#news.gmane.linux.debian.ports.68k in pine
>
>