Using Tin for Newsgroups Using Tin for Newsgroups Newsgroups are electronic bulletin boards where people can post messages. Each newgroup is meant to cover different topics, and thus, each typically has a name representing its topic. It works even from a plain text terminal. The first time you start up Tin it displays some information about how to use it. You won't see that information screen the next time you start up Tin.
Tin lists common commands at the bottom of the screen.
Despite the empty list of newsgroups, there are actually thousands of newsgroups. To see these newsgroups, we can yank them in. Now, suppose we want to find a newsgroup about the TV show Dr. Who . We can use the search command. Since we don't know much about this group, we decide to go into it and take a look at the articles there.