Newsgroups
Newsgroups
You can read
messages in newsgroups, and post your own messages,
using a newsreader client programme such as the Discussion
Group component of Netscape. The name of the news server at McGill is
news.mcgill.ca.
In Netscape 4 you specify the name of the news server
by selecting Edit
Preferences...
Mail & Groups
Groups Server.
In Netscape 7, set up a Newsgroup account: in the Mail window
do New Account
Newsgroup account. Specify
your identication information, then the server name.
In Mozilla, do Edit
Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings.
In Mozilla, go to Window
Mail & Newsgroups. In the list of e-mail folders on
the left will be an entry that says news. Click on it and
help will appear on the right. Click on Manage newsgroup
subscriptions - a Subscribe dialogue box will open
and a hierarchical list of the available newsgroups will be displayed.
Select the one(s) you're interested in and click on Subscribe.
When you're done, click on OK. The names of the
selected newsgroups will appear in the list of e-mail folders on the left.
Highlight one of them and a download window will appear, to download
the messages for that newsgroup. To subscribe to another group, select
File Subscribe.
Slide show generated from news.html by Weasel 2007 Mar 7