tin

tin is a threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader for a variety of platforms.

http://www.tin.org/

it is an actively maintained project, and is installed on tilde.club. tin should be invoked as tin -r to read from the remote news spool. Use to go to the next unread article and w to write a new article.

if you have tin on your local box and can do [[ssh port forwarding]], you can read news using it. (details forthcoming).