{"id":366,"date":"2015-06-29T13:10:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/?page_id=366"},"modified":"2022-07-02T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T02:33:24","slug":"usenet-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/usenet-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Usenet News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; color: #008000;\">Usenet News<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the present, we do not have Usenet News available.\u00a0 The provider we were using, Newsguy, up and vanished with no warning.\u00a0 We have not found another that is economical for the limited number of users using Usenet service.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Usenet News is available only to authenticated users on our shell servers via shell readers such as nn, trn, or tin, or using graphical readers via remote desktop connections such as pan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Most news readers have the server name compiled in but for those which it must be specified, the server name is <strong>news.eskimo.com<\/strong>.\u00a0 Some require this be set in the environmental variable NNTPSERVER:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 export NNTPSERVER=<strong>news.eskimo.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is possible to access Usenet News from your computer but in order to do so you must setup an ssh tunnel using <a href=\"\/support\/how-to\/ssh-forwarding\/\">ssh port forwarding<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usenet News \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the present, we do not have Usenet News available.\u00a0 The provider we were using, Newsguy, up and vanished with no warning.\u00a0 We have not found another that is economical for the limited number of users using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/usenet-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"showcase.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-366","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}