Configuration for reading newsgroup

ubc.courses.cpsc.414

• On-campus
  • See http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/computing/accounts/email_news.shtml#newsgroups
• Off-campus
  Depending on your setup, you might need to set up ssh port forwarding to read department news at home:

  •  ssh -L 5119:news.cs.ubc.ca:119 [username]@remote.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca

  • then set up localhost, port 5119 as your news server at home