External Newsgroups?

[James Clark]

I have never used a newsgroup before, and I just got Entourage 2004 (with
office) and I realized that I know of a couple of local newsgroups that I
would love to be able to take part in, but webmail is not very newsgroup
friendly.

So my question is, (how) can I subscribe to a newsgroup not listed under
microsoft.something.or.other? Like a LLuG? (PLuG north for me...)

Thanks, and I hope I can figure out how to receive responses! I'll try to
sort through the jungle of posts to find responses to this post!

Thanks again!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

So my question is, (how) can I subscribe to a newsgroup not listed under
microsoft.something.or.other? Like a LLuG? (PLuG north for me...)

You need to find the address of a news server you have access to (eg:
through your ISP) that would be hosting the groups you are interested
in.
After that, you can create a new newsgroup account in Entourage (same
way you'd be creating a new e-mail account), get the list of all the
groups hosted and subscribe to the one you are interested in.

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

If you are going to be spending time reading news groups, you'll be
*much* better off using a dedicated Usenet client such as the free and
robust MT-NewsWatcher:

There are many dedicated newsreaders on the market. You can have a good
overview on:
http://www.newsreaders.com/
and more specifically:
http://www.newsreaders.com/mac/clients.html


Corentin