ucb.class.ee192


Courtesy of www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/sp10/newsgroups.html

General instructions: The news server (NNTP server) is news.csua.berkeley.edu. Don't enable SSL. If logging in from off-campus, the username is usenet and the password is gobears; if logging in from a campus IP address, you shouldn't need to enter any username or password. Then subscribe to the ucb.class.ee192 newsgroup.
For specific clients: Here are specific instructions for some popular Usenet clients:
* Thunderbird:

  • 1. Start Thunderbird.
  • 2. Click "New / Other Accounts", and use the wizard to create a "Newsgroup account". Enter news.csua.berkeley.edu as the "Newsgroup server".
  • 3. Click on "Manage newsgroup subscriptions". Enter ucb.class.ee192 into the text field for "Show items that contain:", select the ucb.class.ee192 newsgroup, and click on "Subscribe".
  • 4. Now if you click on the corresponding account in the left pane to expand it, you should see the newsgroup appear (possibly summarized like this: "ucb.class.ee192 (1)"). Click on the newsgroup name to see its contents.

    If you are prompted for a username and password at any time, use username usenet, password gobears.