Getting Started!
QSA is a fairly simple system. Everything required to get it setup is
described on this page. You'll find all these items on the program Tools
menu.
- A USENET News account
I've taken the liberty of adding 2 free news services that are alive and well as of 12-04-2011.
News.mixmin.net is a news server run buy a remailer operator in Great Britain. It is solid and reliable.
The other is a free service from Italy, called
news.aioe.org. I find it fast and reliable. I've made this the default account. It's setup to go.
If you have an account somewhere yourself, add news accounts in the
USENET News Account Manager
- NNTP proxy
This I can't provide for you. You may not even
want or need a proxy. In that case, you can safely skip this item. Otherwise,
you'll need a socks proxy. If you have TOR installed, you'll likely want to use
it with QSA. If that's the case, when you setup the proxy, make sure to use the
port 9050. It's not necessary for QSA to go through TOR's polipo proxy, as QSA
is tor-ified and won't leak any information regarding the connection. Also,
socks 4A is the correct socks level. Add your proxy via the
NNTP Proxy Manager
- AAM Subject lines
This is the heart of the operation. It's expected that you have one or more nyms successfully created and working. Your incoming nym mail is sent to the newsgroup
alt.anonymous.messages, with the subjects hashed (HSUB) or encrypted (ESUB) to avoid linking them together via the common subjects. Add the subject lines in the AAM Subjects Manager. You aren't limited in the number of subjects you enter.
- PGP Keyrings
If you installed QSA into the QSL home directory, you won't need to do anything.
Otherwise take a look at PGP Keyring Dialog.
With those items covered, you're ready to get any mail that may be waiting. Just click the
Get Mail button on the program toolbar.