Going offline. From the Options menu choose
Preferences, then click the Online Operation tab
and check the Use Offline Defaults button.
Choose your newsgroups. Scroll through the list
of newsgroups in the Groups window and look for a
few which match your interests -- you can also use
the Edit, Find menu to search for keywords such as
`bushwalking', `music' or `windows'. Pull down the
Group menu and choose Subscribe to mark these
groups as ones you always wish to read (you can just as easily
unsubscribe from them later on), then pull down the Online menu and
choose Get New Headers in Subscribed Groups. FreeAgent will
now download the headers for all available messages, then go offline.
News headlines. You can browse through
the list of headers in the Article window, using
the Subject line to judge whether or not you'd
like to read the whole message.
Double-clicking those headers tells FreeAgent to retrieve them when
you next go online; unmarked headers will be ignored. When you've
finished with all the groups, choose Get Marked Article Bodes from
the Online menu, then sit back while FreeAgent goes into action.
Read the news. Once the desired articles have
been downloaded FreeAgent logs off. Now you
can read the news and views, add your own
thoughts to the thread or create a new line of
discussion. These messages will be stored in
FreeAgent's Outbox and sent next time you go online.
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