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Hemlock provides a facility for reading bulletin boards through the NetNews Transfer Protocol (NNTP). You can easily read Netnews, reply to news posts, post messages, etc. The news reading interface is consistent with that of the Hemlock mailer, and most Netnews commands function in the same manner as their mailer counterparts.
Netnews can be read in one of two different modes. The first mode, invoked by the Netnews command, allows the user to read new messages in groups which the user has specified. This method of reading netnews will track the highest numbered message in each newsgroup and only show new messages which have arrived since then. The Netnews Browse command invokes the other method of reading netnews. This mode displays a list of all newsgroups, and the user may choose to read messages in any of them. By default, the news reader will not track the latest message read when browsing, and it will always display the last few messages.
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