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Newsreader

🕟︎ - 2005-04-05

Since the beginning of time, or since [nntp], the clients that speak nntp have been called 'newsreaders'.

Apparantly Wired doesn't know this, as they refer to [RSS]-clients as, yes, 'newsreaders'.

How stupid.

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How to in excruciating detail…

To avoid spam many websites make you fill out a CAPTCHA, or log in via an account at a corporation such as Twitter, Facebook, Google or even Microsoft GitHub.

I have chosen to use a more old school method of spam prevention.

To post a comment here, you need to:

  • Configure a newsreader¹ to connect to the server koldfront.dk on port 1119 using nntps (nntp over TLS).
  • Open the newsgroup called lantern.koldfront and post a follow up to the article.
¹ Such as Thunderbird, Pan, slrn, tin or Gnus (part of Emacs).

Or, you can fill in this form:

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