Note: The following instructions use Newscene as an example, and most of this information comes directly from Newscene's webpage. Newscene is a pay server that I recommend at http://www.newscene.com
Outlook Express (IE 4.x first configuration)
1. Outlook Express (Internet Explorer 4.x first configration)
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Comes free with Internet Explorer 4.x. Handles multipe email and news servers.
More information available at Microsoft Corporation
1. Open Outlook Express.
2. Select "News" from the "Go" menu.
3. Configure your User profile.
4. Follow the instructions provided by the Internet Connection Wizard.
5. In the window in which you have to enter the news server address news1.newscene.com
6. Check the button "My news server requires me to log on".
7. Click Next (the Internet news server Logon window appears).
8. Enter your "Account Name" and "Password". Click Next
9. Select the appropriate connection to the Internet. Click Next.
10. Click Finish.
11. Before closing a window prompt if you want to see a list of available
Newsgroups now. Click Yes if you want to do it now. Then follow
the instructions in step 13 below. Click No if you want to do it
later. To get the list next time follow the steps below.
12. Next, get the newsgroups by selecting "Newsgroups" from the "Tools" menu (or from the tool bar click on the "News Groups" icon.) Retrieving the newsgroups the first time it could take few minutes. To update the list of News Groups available click the "Reset List" button on the right hand side.
13. To subscribe to your desired newsgroups select desired group and click the "Subscribe" button.
14. To Show only the subscribed groups click on the "Subscribed" tab located below the newsgroups list.
15. When you have finished subscribing to the newsgroups click "OK".
16. To actually read the subscribed newsgroups select "News" from the "Go" menu (or click on the "News Groups" icon to see a list of available News Groups) The list of the News Groups that you have
subscribed will then appear. Select one of the news groups to which you$
double click, and you will begin retrieving the headers.
Click on an article header to view the article.
Outlook Express (IE 4.x additional news servers)
2. Outlook Express (Internet Explorer 4.x add additional news server)
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Comes free with Internet Explorer 4.x. Handles multipe email and news servers.
More information available at Microsoft Corporation
1. Open Outlook Express.
2. Select Accounts from under the Tools menu.
3. A dialog box will open up. Click on the Add button and select News.
4. Fill in the server name, Newscene.
5. Fill in you return emal address.
6. Fill in the server address (news1.newscene.com, etc.)
7. Check the box that 'My news server requires me to log on'
8. Select Log on using and fill in your account name and password.
9. Enter a friendly news account name. Can be any name you want.
10. Select how you connect to the Internet.
11. Click Finish.
12. Before closing a window prompt if you want to see a list of available
Newsgroups now. Click Yes if you want to do it now. Then follow
the instructions in step 13 below. Click No if you want to do it
later. To get the list next time follow the steps below.
13. Next, get the newsgroups by selecting "Newsgroups" from the "Tools"
menu (or from the tool bar click on the "News Groups" icon.)
Retrieving the newsgroups the first time it could take few
minutes. To update the list of News Groups available click the
"Reset List" button on the right hand side.
14. To subscribe to your desired newsgroups select desired group and click
the "Subscribe" button.
15. To Show only the subscribed groups click on the "Subscribed" tab
located below the newsgroups list.
16. When you have finished subscribing to the newsgroups click "OK".
17. To actually read the subscribed newsgroups select "News" from the "Go"
menu (or click on the "News Groups" icon to see a list of
available News Groups) The list of the News Groups that you have
subscribed will then appear. Select one of the news groups to which you$
double click, and you will begin retrieving the headers.
Click on an article header to view the article.
2.
From the main menu select News and a dialog window opens up.
3.
Click on the Server tab.
4. Click on the Add button and anothe window opens up.
5. Click on the General tab.
6. Type in the news server address (news1.newscene.com).
7. Click on the checkbox - 'This server requires me to login'.
8. Click on Logon Using.
9. Fill in your login name and password.
10. If this is to be your default server then click on Set as Default.
11. Click on the Connection tab.
12. Select how you connect to the Internet.
13. Click on the Advanced tab.
14. Enter 119 into the News Port Number.
15. Later if you experience timeout you can come back to adjust the Server Timeout settings.
16. Click on Apply.
17. Click on OK.
18. If you are prompted to subscribe to the newsgroups on the
news server then select Yes. It should connect and begin
to retrieve a group list whcih can take a little while.
19. After the newgroups are retrieved you will be prompted to
decide which groups you wish to subscribe.
20.
After subscibing to the groups you can use the pulldown to select whcih group you wish to view.
Agent (Registered version)
4. Agent (registered version)
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Commercial product with many advanced features including integrated email and news folders, kill filters,
and lots of third party addons. More information available at Forte, Inc.
1. Open up Agent.
2. Select User and System Profile under the Options menu.
3. Click on the User tab. Fill in email information. Select
Login With a Username and Password. Fill in your news
account login and password. Make sure the checkbox is
checked to Remember Password Between Sessions.
4. Click on the System tab. Fill in the news server address.
Our news server address is news1.newscene.com.
Also fill in your email server information.
5. Click on the OK button and you are all set to go.
6. Select Refresh Groups List under the Online menu. Select Delete All Extinct Groups.
Click OK to retrieve a complete list of all of our newsgroups.
7. Subscribe to the newsgroups by highlighting a group and then select Subscribe List under the Group menu
8. Use Show Groups and Folders under the Group menu to display the subscribed news groups.
9. Select Get New Headers In Subscribed Groups under the Online menu to retrieve article headers.
Free Agent (Freeware version)
5. Free Agent (freeware version)
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Freeware product with a subset of the many advanced features offered in the commercial version of Agent.
More information available at Forte, Inc.
1. Open up Free Agent.
2. Select General Preferences under the Options menu.
3. Click on the User tab. Fill in email information. Select
Login With a Username and Password. Fill in your news
account login and password. Make sure the checkbox is
checked to Remember Password Between Sessions.
4. Click on the System tab. Fill in the news server address.
Our news server address is news1.newscene.com.
Also fill in your email server information.
5. Click on the OK button and you are all set to go.
6. Select Refresh Groups List under the Online menu. Select Delete All Extinct Groups.
Click OK to retrieve a complete list of all of our newsgroups.
7. Subscribe to the newsgroups by highlighting a group and then select Subscribe List under the Group menu
8. Use Show under the Group menu to display the subscribed news groups.
9. Select Get New Headers In Subscribed Groups under the Online menu to retrieve article headers.
1.
Open up Netscape Collabra. You can either launch Collabra directly or launch Netscape 4.x.
If you choose to launch Netscape 4.x you can open Collabra by selecting the Collabra Discussion Group
from the Communicator menu.
2.
From the Edit menu select Preferences.
3.
Click on the Newsgroups Servers.
4. On the right side click on the Add button.
5. Enter the news server address. Be sure port 119 is specified.
Secure should be unchecked and Always Use Name and Password should be checked.
6. Click the Choose button to specify where your news group folders will be stored.
7. Decide whether you want to be prompted if more than 500 (or whatever you specify) messages are downloaded.
8. Then click OK and a new discussion group entry is created.
9. Right mouse click on the group and select Subscribe to Discusion groups. A window pops up and prompts you for a login and password.
10. After entering your login and password correctly you will begin to
receive the newsgroups. This may take a while so be patient.
11. Afterwards you then subscribe to whatever your groups you want.
News Xpress
7. News Xpress
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Freeware product with many advanced features including online graphic viewing during download.
News Xpress can be located at Tucows.
More information available at News Xpress
1.
Open up News Xpress.
2.
Select Options from the File menu.
3.
Click on the Servers Directory tab. Fill in the news server address.
Our news server address is news1.newscene.com. Also fill in your email server information.
4. Select the News Server Authorization and fill in your news login and password.
When completed click OK.
5. To retrieve a listing of the newsgroups click on All tab located at the bottom of the screen.
Select Update Groups Info from the Group menu to retrieve our newsgroups list.
6. After reviewing all the available news groups you can subscribe to the groups
by clicking on the bullets or highlighting the newsgroup then selecting Subscribe
from the Group menu. When you have completed subscribing to the desired
newsgroups you can click on the Subscribed tab to review your selections.
7. To retrieve headers highlight the desired newsgroup and select All Articles from the View menu.
YA News Watcher
8. YA News Watcher
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Freeware product MacIntosh users. More information available at Tucows
1.
Open up News Watcher.
2.
Select Preferences from the Edit menu.
3.
Select Servers Addresses from the pulldown menu.
Fill in the news server address.
Our news server address is news1.newscene.com.
Also fill in your email server information.
4. Select Authentication from the pulldown menu.
Fill in your news login and password.
Make sure Always Authenticate is checked to remember your login and password
between sessions. When completed click OK.
5. Exit YA Newswatcher and open it up again.
6. To subscribe to the newsgroups select the desired newsgroup and then select
Subscribe from the Special menu or you can drag-and-drop the selected
newsgroup to the Titled Group window.
7. To retrieve the newsgroup headers double click on the newsgroup.
10. News Rover
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Shareware product with flexible search features and thumbnail previews. More information available at S&H Computer Systems
1. Open up News Rover.
2. Open the configuration window by selecting the Configure menu.
3. Click the Server tab.
4. Click Add Server.
5. Fill in the news server address. Our news server address is news1.newscene.com.
6. Select Logon authorization required. Fill in your news login and password.
Select the method of how you will connect to the Internet.
7. Click the E-Mail tab. Fill in your email server information.
8. To retrieve the list of newsgroups select the Get-Newsgroups menu.
9. Click on New Interest Group to begin subscribing to the newsgroups.
10. Click on New Interest Group.
11. To retrieve the newsgroup headers click on Run located in the News Rover window.
12. Select Messages from the View menu to examine the articles.
WinVN
11. WinVN
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Freeware product with basic features including multiple server support. More information available at Tucows
FAQ available at WinVN Hompage
1. Open up WinVN.
2. Select Communications from the Configure menu. If it is a
first install then the Commuications Options will open automatically.
3. Fill in the news server information. (news1.newscene.com, port 119)
4. Fill in the Authorization Information. Be sure check Save Password.
5. Fill in the SMTP Server information. Use SMTP protocol.
6. Fill in your appropriate time zone.
7. Click OK.
8. Select Connect to Server from the Network menu. If it is a first install then you will automatically attempt to connect to the news server.
9. Click Yes when prompted to retrieve the latest group list from the server. If it is a first install then you will automatically attempt to retrieve the list from the server.
10. Select the groups you want to subscribe.
11. Select Subscribe Selected Groups from the Group menu.
12. Double click on a group to open a new window to retrieve the list of articles.
13. Double click on an article to open a new window to retrieve the body of article.
14. To decode an article, select the articles parts by clicking on the individual
article. Then select Decode Selected Articles from the Articles menu.
