add instructions to use slrn

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dgy 2020-10-08 20:32:41 +00:00 committed by Ben Harris
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### slrn
[slrn](slrn.html) is a newsreader; see http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ for details.
First, add `export NNTPSERVER="localhost"` to your shellrc (`.bashrc`, `.zshrc`)
and source it (`source path/to/.shellrc`).
Then run `slrn --create` to create the slrn config file, and lastly `slrn -d` to
populate group names.
You're now ready to run `slrn`! If the list is empty, press `L` (for list-groups) and enter `*` in the field for all groups. You might need to enter each group (pressing `space`) to get a proper count for how many (if any) unread messages there are.
### pine/alpine
[[pine]] can read news; this