Re: Usenet Newsgroups Part III - Founding, Fame, Influence, and Foreshadowing

On 2023-12-17, Paul W. Schleck <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Table of Contents:
>
> - Salad Days - 1979 to 1990
> - The Rise of News Groups and the Breaking of Norms - 1990 to 1996
> - The Green Card Lawyers Destroy it All
> - Waiting for Facebook or Something Like It - 1996-2008
> - Porn, Death, and the Ashes - 2008 onward
> - Usenet Newsgroups Today"
>
>
> https://tagn.wordpress.com/2023/12/10/usenet-newsgroups-part-iii-founding-fame-influence-and-foreshadowing/
>

You can read these under slrn.

Unzip the file, rename the UsenetCDROM/SPOOL directory to UsenetCDROM/news,
create the UsenetCDROM/out.going directory, and create
an ./slrnrc file with this content:

set auto_mark_article_as_read 0
set username "none"
set realname "Bozo User"
set hostname "dev.null"
set post_object "slrnpull"
set read_active 0
set scorefile "UsenetCDROM/news/score"
set server_object "spool"
set spool_inn_root "UsenetCDROM"
set spool_nov_root "UsenetCDROM/news"
set spool_root "UsenetCDROM/news"
set use_slrnpull 1
set wrap_flags 4
set custom_sort_by_threads 1
set custom_sort_order "Highscore,Date|date"
set new_subject_breaks_threads 2
set sorting_method 12
interpret "slrnface.sl"
#EOF

Then, to create the jnewsrc --file:

slrn -i ./slrnrc -f jnewsrc --create

Press 's' until you get subscribed to all the groups.

Theb, to read the archived news, create a 'news.sh'
script with this content:

#/bin/sh
slrn -i ./slrnrc -f jnewsrc "$@"

chmod +x it.

Done.

Just run ./run.sh to read all the cached history there.