To read the course newsgroup, login (via ssh) to a university machine
such as feynman.ece

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Craig Joly wrote:

start pine (type "pine")
press "s" to enter the setup        <----  enter the setup
press "c" to enter configuration setup
set personal-name to your name
set nntp-server to news.srv.ualberta.ca
press "e" to exit setup
press "y" to save your changes
press "q" to exit pine
start pine again
you can now choose to view newsgroups from the folder list

to subscribe to cmpe480
select "News on news.srv.ualberta.ca/nntp" from the folder list
press "a" to add a newsgroup
type "ualberta.cousres.cmpe.480" and press enter
select "ualberta.courses.cmpe.480" to view our discussion