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Configure your Newsgroups with I.E. - Lesson3

Using Internet Explorer to access Newsgroups? 

You can contact your ISP and ask any of the Technicians to help out, should you run into problems setting up your own account. We will have a minor problem setting up Newsgroups using Outlook Express at the College, since they have restricted access to the Tools, Account, Internet Options from the menus system. This exercise may be one you wish to practice by trying it at home using your own computer. If you only have Netscape at home, then you can move on to the next lesson in the series.

What to do?

  1. Open Outlook Express , now click on Tools, Accounts, from the dropdown menu

Click on  Accounts from within the Tools menu.

  1. Next you will click on the tab at the top of your screen, which will allow you to Add tab ( ) on the right side of your screen. You will then be asked some questions of how you wish to setup your Newsgroup account. You see questions such as Name, Email address, Name of the News Server, which you may have to get from your ISP or other sources related to your account. Then you will receive a success message telling you your News account is ready for action.

 

  These are some of the screens you will have access to within the News account you have just setup. Remember your account and ISP will differ from mine, and should you have problems at anytime call up Tech support and have them give you a hand. It will only take approximately 5 minutes to set up this entire feature.

  1. Next on the left side of your screen within your open window showing Outlook Express you will see an entry of the Newly created Newsgroup similar to this . Remember if your ISP is different then your Newsgroup server should not state news.golden.net. Can I use your newsgroup, no most ISP's wish for you to belong subscribe to the news server you are trying to access.
  2. What we will have to note is how the Outlook Express screen should look at this point. You should have your screen split into three (3). The left side will show the Newsgroups we are currently connected too, top right side will display all header messages within the subscribed Newsgroup and the bottom right content area will display the actual message once the header portion has been highlighted.
  3. The only mechanism missing is actually subscribing to some desired Newsgroups under the categories previously outlined in Lesson1. 
  4. On the left side of your screen click on the Newsgroup account name. You now see tab buttons at the top right hand side of your screen similar to these listed below.  The one we will be needing is the Newsgroups Tab, this will allow us to view all the related Newsgroup categories listed on your ISP's News server. Once you click on the Newsgroup tab you should see a screen display similar to this. The groups are all Alphabetically listed, allowing to scroll, type group names you may know. Highlight any newsgroup of interest and click on the Subscribe button similar to example displayed within this screen shot.

 

  1. Here is an example, I place the letters KW into the Display Newsgroups which contain field: 

Note the KW added to the empty field, which resulted in the list dropping or displaying all related Newsgroups associate to KW heading.

 

  1. Once you have subscribed to the Newsgroup categories of your choice, you will notice these selections on the left hemisphere of your screen as show here. From the KW section Newsgroup I selected kw.forsale and kw.jobs. What we need to do next is highlight either of these items and the messages headers  within (80 & 507) will appear at the top-right of your screen

                             

Output from kw.forsale

   

 

  1. Now all that is needed will be to click/highlight one of message headers on the top-right side of your screen the actual message will appear within the bottom-right portion of your screen. Once you have read the message, you will be able to Reply (re:) feedback the Newsgroup for all to read your reply.  You choose to select Reply to Sender only, this message will be sent directly to the individual who posted the message.

 

On to Lesson 4

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