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2008-04-01 12:37 pm (UTC)
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Yes you can!
Short answer is that you open a terminal window and type the following at it:
ssh -L 9119:abyss.ninehells.com:119 user_id@ninehells.com
where user_id is your user ID. You won't have to do anything in this connection, but it will need to stay open for the news reader to work.
Next, in Thunderbird, you tell it to use a news server on localhost. Change the port number Thunderbird connects to from 119 to 9119.
Enjoy the lifeblood of USENET.
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Short answer is that you open a terminal window and type the following at it:
ssh -L 9119:abyss.ninehells.com:119 user_id@ninehells.com
where user_id is your user ID. You won't have to do anything in this connection, but it will need to stay open for the news reader to work.
Next, in Thunderbird, you tell it to use a news server on localhost. Change the port number Thunderbird connects to from 119 to 9119.
Enjoy the lifeblood of USENET.