Chapter 3: Usenet (3 of 5) -- News readers

     How do you dive right in?  On the Free-Net and some other systems,
it's all done through menus -- you just keep choosing from a list of
choices until you get to the newsgroup you want and then hit the "read"
command.  On Unix systems, however, you will have to use a "newsreader"
program.  Two of the more common ones are known as rn (for "read news")
and nn (for "no news" -- because it's supposed to be simpler to use).
     For beginners, nn may be the better choice because it works with
rudimentary menus -- you get a list of articles in a given newsgroup and
then you choose which ones you want to see.

    Example session in nn newsreader   
    Finding interesting groups: NNGREP 
    Customizing news groups: .newsrc   
    Example session in rn newsreader   
      >>  rn commands.                 
      >>  nn commands.