Official announcements are posted in the local a2i.announce newsgroup and cross-posted into the local a2i.info newsgroup. Follow-up questions from users, their answers, and related discussion, will be found in a2i.info but not in a2i.announce. The a2i.announce and a2i.info newsgroups may be accessed via a number of methods described below.

Information about significant changes in our services is made available via these official announcements.

General discussions may be found in the a2i.general newsgroup.

Point your web browser to http://forum.rahul.net/ and follow the instructions in the Notices section to become a registered user of the forums. Follow-up questions may be posted into the a2i.info forum.

While connected to the Internet, simply point your nntp client to news.rahul.net (see the NNTP ACCESS section below) and access the relevant newsgroups. (You may post follow-up questions to a2i.info.)

To get announcements by email as they are issued, you will need to subscribe to the a2i-announce or a2i-info mailing list. This can be done by pointing your web browser to one of the links below. After you subscribe to a mailing list, you will be able to view its archives of old postings with a web browser. Follow-up questions cannot be sent to these mailing lists by email, but they may be submitted by the other methods described in this document.

• a2i.announce mailing list (Official announcements only.)
• a2i.info mailing list (Official announcements and follow-up discussions.)
• a2i.general mailing list (General discussions.)

If logged into the Linux shell on the Classic Linux servers, use nn, tin, or trn to access the relevant newsgroups, or type the command 'a2inews' at the shell prompt to read only the official announcements (but not follow-up discussion) in reverse chronological order.

General discussions among users may be found in the a2i.general newsgroup. This newsgroup is gatewayed to a corresponding mailing list called a2i-general and a corresponding forum called a2i.general. Use any of the methods described above to access these.

To access news.rahul.net via nntp from the global Internet, point your web browser to https://userinfo.rahul.net/, log in with your usual login name and password, and then follow the 'Auxiliary Password for NNTP and Web Proxy' link. This will generate the needed login information for you. You can now use this for nntp access to news.rahul.net. (If you are unable to log into the above URL, please contact support@rahul.net and ask us to enable your access to https://userinfo.rahul.net/—there is no charge for this.)