How do I register on FidoNet?
A. Very Simple. Firstly, ensure your newsreader settings comply with the above email account requirements, and that your NNTP server carries the group fido7.zx.spectrum. Subscribe to the fido7.zx.spectrum group. Submit a short post to the group. Bear in mind that this first post will not get through anyway, so don’t write too much. Something like Привет! (Greetings!) woud do. In fact a blank post would probably suffice, although I have not tried this myself. Within the hour or so of attempting to post, you will receive an auto-generated email. This will be received at the address you had your news reader software configured with, when you made the posting attempt. First thing to check is that it doesn’t say (In English) “Domain not allowed” or something similar. This would happen if you have posted using a free email provider as your email address. If in doubt use your ISP email account, but be aware of the problem of spam when posting to public groups whilst using your real email addr
