24. I heard of Hangul Usenet newsgroups in Korea. How can I read them?
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This article is from the Hangul & Internet in Korea FAQ, by Jungshik Shin jshin@minerva.cis.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.
24. I heard of Hangul Usenet newsgroups in Korea. How can I read them?
Here's the list of Hangul newsgroups posted regularly by Dr. Suh, Sangyong
to han.answers and news.admin.hierarchies. Some of them are linked to
mailing lists. See Subject 14 for Hangul mailing lists and linked
newsgroups. The most up-to-date list is always available (the following list
is bound to be out-of-date as han.* hierarchy is growing pretty fast) at
ftp://ftp.usenet.or.kr/pub/korea/usenet/newsgroups.han.
han.announce Announcement to All Korean Usenet Subscribers.(Moderated)
han.answers FAQ and periodic postings.(Moderated)
han.binaries.photo Photo files
han.comp.database DB design, construction and application.
han.comp.hangul How Korean Hangul can be used in computers.
han.comp.lang.c Discussions of C Language.
han.comp.lang.c++ Discussions of C++ Language.
han.comp.lang.fortran Discussions of Fortran Language.
han.comp.lang.java Discussions of Java Language.
han.comp.lang.misc Discussions of Miscellaneous Languages.
han.comp.mail E-mail system, config and reader issues.
han.comp.misc Computer Technologies and Computer Science Topics.
han.comp.os.freebsd Information on FreeBSD operating system.
han.comp.os.linux Linux, Free Unix for All.
han.comp.os.misc Miscelaneous OS(BeOS,VMS,NeXTstep,SCO,etc).
han.comp.os.unix Unix:General issues(shell,admin,utility.programming).
han.comp.os.winnt Discussions of Windows NT
han.comp.security Computer & Network Security, Protection, Privacy issues.
han.comp.sys.cray CRAY Supercomputer & Crayettes.
han.comp.sys.hp Hewlett-Packard computers, HP-UX.
han.comp.sys.ibmpc IBM-PC & compatibles, software, hardware, peripherals.
han.comp.sys.mac Macintosh computer, Power Mac, MacOS.
han.comp.sys.misc DEC,IBM RS6000,NC,NetPC,PDA µî ±âŸ ½Ã½ºÅÛ¿¡ ´ëÇÑ Á¤º¸.
han.comp.sys.sgi Discussions of SGI Graphic Workstations, OpenGL, IRIX.
han.comp.sys.sun SUN workstation. SunOS, Solaris.
han.comp.www.authoring Authoring of web page
han.comp.www.browsers Discussions of browsers
han.comp.www.info Web URL information
han.comp.www.servers Discussions of web servers
han.comp.www.misc Other WWW issues
han.misc.forsale Things for Sale, Wanted to Buy.
han.misc.jobs Job announcements and discussions in Korea.
han.misc.misc General or Miscellaneous News Topics.
han.net.kornet News specific to KORNET of Korea Telecom.
han.net.kren News specific to KREN Academic Network.
han.net.kreonet News specific to KREONET Research Network.
han.net.misc News for Other networks and BBS's in Korea.
han.net.nuri News specific to NURINET of INET.
han.news.admin Discussions on news server administration and news feeding.
han.news.groups RFD/CFV to create/remove/change a newsgroup.
han.news.net-abuse Information about Usenet abuse.(Moderated)
han.news.stats Korean news server statistics.(Moderated)
han.news.users Usenet users, new user question/discussion.
han.politics Politics in Republic of Korea.
han.rec.artrock Lovers of Art-Rock Music.
han.rec.baduk Baduk(a.k.a. Go).
han.rec.books Book and Press.
han.rec.food All about things to Eat or Drink.
han.rec.games Computer Games, Electonic Amusement.
han.rec.humor Humorous or Funny Stories, Jokes.
han.rec.manhwa Manhwa: Comics, Cartoons, and Animations.
han.rec.misc Other Recreation, Hobbies, Sports or Entertainment.
han.rec.movie Movie and Video.
han.rec.music Music and Disc.
han.rec.photo Photo and Photography.
han.rec.sf Science Fiction and Fantasy.
han.rec.sports.baseball Discussions on baseball
han.rec.sports.basketball Discussions on basketball
han.rec.sports.football Discussions on football
han.rec.sports.golf Discussions on golf
han.rec.sports.misc Discussions on other sports
han.rec.sports.tennis Discussions on tennis
han.rec.sports.volleyball Discussions on volleyball
han.rec.tv Television.
han.school.elementary Meeting place of elementary school students
han.school.high Meeting place of senior high school students
han.school.middle Meeting place of junior high school students
han.school.pta Parents and teachers meeting place
han.sci.astro Stars and Planets, Astronomy and Space.
han.sci.dentistry Dentally related topics; all about teeth
han.sci.earth Our Planet, Earth, Geo Science and Meteology.
han.sci.med A forum for doctors and medical scientists
han.sci.misc Other Scientific or Literate Research and Academic topics.
han.soc.culture.chejudo Culture of Chejudo, Korea
han.soc.culture.chollado Culture of Chollado, Korea
han.soc.culture.chungchongdo Culture of Chungchongdo, Korea
han.soc.culture.kangwondo Culture of Kangwondo, Korea
han.soc.culture.kyonggido Culture of Kyonggido, Korea
han.soc.culture.kyongsangdo Culture of Kyongsangdo, Korea
han.soc.culture.seoul Culture of Seoul, Korea
han.soc.movements Social Movements in Korea
han.soc.religion.christianity.catholic Discussions on Catholic
han.soc.religion.christianity.protestant Discussions on Protestant
han.soc.religion.buddhism Discussions on Buddism
han.soc.religion.misc Discussions on other religions
han.test Testing, testing, 1-2-3...
On UNIX host,
Set NNTPSERVER to any of servers carrying Han.* groups and make a separate
newsrc file for Han newsgroup server with ONLY Han.* news groups. I use
shell scripts listed below for tin and rn,respectively(My newsrc file for
Han.* newsgroup is .knewsrc in my home directory). Other news readers
(trn,nn) have similar options/environment variables to be set. Non-localized
version of tin works fine if you set editor to use with it to one of Hangul
editor mentioend in Subject 3. Only problem is it doesn't accept Hangul as
Subject and Search keyword. For Subject, you can leave it blank when asked
for it and then later in article composition mode, type in what you want
beside "Subject: " header. There's a localized version of tin 1.2PL2 (
tin-1.2pl2h1) in /pub/hangul/misc at CAIR archive and mirror sites. The
newest beta version of tin, tin 1.4pre (continuosly updated every couple of
weeks or so) has solved all of these problems and even include Hangul
mail(when replying by mail) related patch supplied by me. It's available at
ftp://ftp.tin.org and in /hangul/news at CAIR archive. Please, make sure
mm_charset,post_mime_encoding and post_8bit_header are set to EUC-KR,8bit
and ON, respectively which can be done either by pressing 'M' in main menu
of Tin or editing ~/.tinrc, when using tin 1.3unoff-beta/tin 1.4-pre. When
configuring tin 1.3unoff-beta/tin 1.4-pre for compilation, running following
command is recommended in top of the source tree. For detail abuot
'mail-gateway' (there's another configurable variable) which affects one's
address in From: header, see document included in tin source.
./configure --verbose \
--disable-echo \
--enable-nntp-only \
--disable-mime-strict-charset \
--with-mime-default-charset=EUC-KR \
--with-mail-gateway=/etc/NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN \
--with-nntp-default-server=/etc/NNTPSERVER \
--disable-locale
NNTP server known to carry Han.* groups outside Korea are [ contribution by
Dr Suh, Sangyong at sysuh@kigam.re.kr ].
o news.uoregon.edu
o news.netins.net
o newsfeed.internetmci.com
o europa.chnt.gtegsc.com
o news.EU.net
o news.mcs.net
o agate.berkeley.edu
o overload.lbl.gov
Most of these don't allow access from outside thier sites, however.
Therefore, you may have to contact the admin. of the server at your site
about carrying Han.* groups. For the time being, I set up a newsserver at my
computer and open it to those with their accounts in domains other than KR
and COM. I wish as many of you without your own server carrying han.* as
possible to connect to my newsserver to read and post articles in han.*
groups and to contribute to Korean Usenet community. Using my server instead
of one in Korea helps reduce the net traffic across the pacific as well. My
server address is net192-16.student.yale.edu. (It used to be
photon.hgs.yale.edu. I expect it to get back its old name in late
Auguest/early September).
European users may wish to use an excellent server at
news.fu-berlin.de(Freie Universitat Berlin). According to Shin, Jin-Hwan at
Y.Shin@gsi.de, it carries han.* groups. To have both read and write
permission to han.* groups, you have to send an email to heiko@FU-Berlin.DE
with the Subject line that read han-groups or han-Gruppen along
with ip address or a block of ip addresses where you like to access the
server.
NNTP server in Korea open for read only or read/write are
o news.kaist.ac.kr
Please, avoid using these servers if possible to help limited bandwidth for
the across-pacfic connection to be spared for other uses. First, try to
persuade your news admin. to carry han.* and find some newsservers carrying
han.* near you and open to you. If it fails(my personal Linux machine may
not be always up and running), connect to my server mentioned above if you
are in domains I open my server to listed above. Servers in Korea should be
the last resort. When using my server or whatever server not at your
organization, make sure that you define environment variable ORGANIZATION to
the name of your school,company,etc. Otherwise, your article header reads
like this
gildong@AAA-Univ.edu Hong Gil-dong at Alpha University.
where Alpha University is the name of the organization where newsserver is
run.
There are a couple of Dejanews-like web-based Usenet services in Korea. If
you're not familiar with Usenet news, you may try http://www.netple.co.kr
and http://www.mecom.net
Choi, Kyung Jae(choikj@yurim.skku.ac.kr) is running DNews under Windows NT
and made all the Hangul newsgroups available via WWW at
http://geo2.skku.ac.kr/.
Listed belows are shell scripts to use with tin,rn,and trn in Unix for
Hangul news group. For tin,
#!/bin/sh NNTPSERVER=photon.hgs.yale.edu ORGANIZATION=Your school name export NNTPSERVER case "$1" in -r) tin -q -r -s $HOME/News/hangul -f $HOME/.knewsrc | hcode -kr ;; *) tin -q -r -s $HOME/News/hangul -f $HOME/.knewsrc ;; esac
For rn,
#!/bin/sh NNTPSERVER=photon.hgs.yale.edu ORGANIZATION=Your school name NEWSRC=$HOME/.knewsrc SAVEDIR=$HOME/News/hangul export NNTPSERVER SAVEDIR NEWSRC case "$1" in -r) rn -q|hcode -kr ;; *) rn -q ;; esac
For trn, make the directory named knews in your home directory where all
configuration files for trn will be put.
#!/bin/sh NNTPSERVER=photon.hgs.yale.edu ORGANIZATION=Your school name DOTDIR=$HOME/knews case "$1" in -r) trn -q |hcode -kr ;; *) trn -q ;; esac
In case you always use Hangul terminal(See Subject 2) ), you may put alias
for Han.* newsgroups in your .login(csh/tcsh) or .profile(ksh /bash).
Please, note that the followings are for csh/tcsh and that the equal
sign('=') should be inserted between the name of the alias and its value
when defining aliases in bash and ksh.
For rn, use
alias krn 'rn -ENNTPSERVER=photon.hgs.yale.edu -ENEWSRC=$HOME/.knewsrc'
For tin,
alias ktin 'csh -c "setenv NNTPSERVER photon.hgs.yale.edu;tin -f $HOME/.knewsrc"'
OR
alias ktin 'sh -c "NNTPSERVER=photon.hgs.yale.edu;export NNTPSERVER;tin -f $HOME/.knewsrc"'
For trn,
alias ktrn "trn -ENNTPSERVER=photon.hgs.yale.edu -EDOTDIR=$HOME/knews"
Slrn, a powerful news reader for Unix-like OS with off-line reading feature,
requires a bit of tuning to make it generate an article compliant to the
custom adopted Han.* hierarchy. (no encoding of header and body). Following
entries to add to ~/.slrnrc was posted to han.comp.hangul by
naman@hooks.purple.co.kr and Kim, Byeong chan at
redhands@soback.kornet.nm.kr
set custom_headers "Mime-Version: 1.0\n
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EUC-KR\n
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"
#Please, note that all three lines are to
#be concatenated to make them a single line.
set followup_custom_headers "Mime-Version: 1.0\n
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EUC-KR\n
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"
# the same is true here
set reply_custom_headers "Mime-Version: 1.0\n
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=EUC-KR\n
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit"
# the same is true here
Emacs/Mule/ Hanemacs users may add following lines to .emacs in their home
directories where NNTPSERVER usenet.kornet.nm.kr can be replaced by the
nearest newsserver carrying han.* groups. [Contribution by Un, Koaunghi at
koaunghi.un@student.uni-tuebingen.de]
(setq gnus-nntp-server "usenet.kornet.nm.kr" ; usenet.kornet.nm.kr
gnus-startup-file "~/.newsrc-usenet.kornet.nm.kr")
Mule users have to add what follows as well. Please, note that GNUs-mule has
a serious problem with Hangul posting. For some unknown reason, it adds a
character(ASCII 0x93) which doesn't belong to Korean/English character
set(EUC-KR) after every single Hangul syllables.
(define-program-coding-system nil ".*inews.*" *euc-korea*)
(define-program-coding-system nil ".*News.*" *euc-korea*)
(define-service-coding-system "nntp" nil *euc-korea*)
Alternatively, following can be used for Mule[Contribution by Oh Sehoon at
t60478@hongo.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp].
(setq gnus-Group-mode-hook 'gnusutil-initialize)
(setq gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnusutil-initialize)
(gnusutil-add-group "han" '*euc-korea*)
Note that emacs(non-localized GNU or Xemacs) users need additional set-up to
enter Hangul. See Subject 3
Mule 19.33 users have to add what follows to ~/.emacs, instead. You can
choose between your primary server and one of servers where you can read
Han.* by launching Gnus with non-numerical argument(i.e. invoke it by C-u
M-x gnus). See also Subject 3 for additional setting in Mule 19.33. Mule
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