Netscape 7.1 or above is the recommended product for reading newsgroups.You may also use tin. Tin is a threaded newsreader available when you connect directly to mail.sas with a telnet or ssh client. Please note that newsgroups are a public forum, and that anyone associated with the University has access to all of the messages that are posted.

See the categories below for information on using Netscape as a newsreader.

Settings
Subscribe
Read
View
Reply
Post

Settings
Before you can send or post messages, you must make sure you have entered your outgoing mail server settings.

1. Click on the Edit menu and select Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings.
2. If it is not already entered, fill in the your name, email address, and return email address (only if different from your email address).
3. Select Outgoing mail (SMTP) server.The server address is smtp.sas.upenn.edu. (If you are off-campus, and this smtp server does not work, use your Internet Service Provider's smtp server.)
4. Check the box that says Use name and password. Enter your mail.sas username in the box user name. (Your mail.sas username is the part of your email address before the @sas.upenn.edu.)
5. Click Add Account, and choose Newsgroup Account.
6. Enter your name and email address and then click Next.
7. Enter the Newsgroup Server address netnews.upenn.edu. Click Next and enter the Account name you would like to refer to this account.
8. Verify the information and click Finish to setup the newsgroup account.

To subscribe to newsgroups

1. Open Netscape
2. Click on the Newsgroup account. Depending on how your configured Netscape, the server will appear as netnews.upenn.edu or whatever you named it.
3. Right-click on the account and select Subscribe to Newsgroups.
4. A new window will open with a list of all the newsgroups available.
5. If you are looking for Penn newsgroups, scroll down to upenn and then double-click on it.
6. To subscribe to a newsgroup, check the box in the Subscribe column.
7. Once you are finished subscribing to all the newsgroups you want, click OK.

To read messages

1. After you click OK in step 7 above, the newsgroups to which you subscribed will appear under the new server.
2. Click on a newgroup to view its messages.
3. Double-click on a message to read it.
   

To view messages
Netscape offers you the option of displaying all of the messages posted to a newsgroup, or only displaying the messages that you have not read. To change the setting:

1. Select the View menu.
2. Select Messages.
3. Choose the option that you want.

To reply to a message

1. Click on the message to which you want to reply.
2. Click on the Reply button in the toolbar at the top of the screen (or, only on a PC, press <Ctrl> + <r>).
3. A new window will appear. Compose your message in the window.
4. Click Send (or, only on a PC, press <Ctrl> + <Enter>).

To start a new post

1. Make sure that the appropriate newsgroup is selected on the left.
2. Click the Compose button in the toolbar at the top of the screen (or, only on a PC, press <Ctrl> + <m>).
3. A new window will appear. Compose your message and make sure to include a subject.
4. Click Send (or, only on a PC, press <Ctrl> + <Enter>).

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Last modified: Thursday, 30-Sep-2004 09:01:11 EDT