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Reading Newsgroups

If you subscribe to a news server, you can use Microsoft Internet Explorer to read or post messages in Usenet newsgroups.

To configure Microsoft Internet Explorer to access newsgroups

1. On the View menu, click Options.
   
2. Click the News tab, if necessary.
   
3. Select the Use Internet Explorer To Read Internet Newsgroups check box.
   
4. In the News Server Address box, type the domain name or IP address of your news server.
   
5. Click OK.

To read newsgroups

1. To list the available newsgroups, type news:* in the URL box. An alphabetical list of newsgroups with brief descriptions appears. To list the messages in a newsgroup, click the name of the newsgroup.
   
2. To access a particular newsgroup, type the URL by using the syntax news:newsgroup. For example: news:news.announce.newusers
   

Notes

• Unlike other URLs, newsgroup URLs do not include slashes (//) after the colon (:).
• When you first access a newsgroup, the subject lines of the first 20 messages are listed. Click a subject line to display the full message.
• To list a range of messages, type the URL of the newsgroup, followed by a slash and the range of messages. For example: news:news.answers/38179-38198