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- If you subscribe to a <A
- HREF="http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/LineMode/Defaults/AboutNewsServers.html"><I>news
- server</I></A>, you can use Mosaic to read <A
- HREF="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/text/faq/usenet/usenet/what-is/part1/faq.html"><I>Usenet
- newsgroups</I></A>. To post articles to newsgroups, a dedicated news program is
- needed.
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- <P><B>To configure Mosaic to access newsgroups:</B>
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- <P><LI>From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
- <P><LI>Choose the Miscellaneous panel, if necessary.
- <P><LI>In the News Server field, enter the domain name or IP address
- of your news server.
- <P><LI>Choose the OK button.
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- <P><B>To read newsgroups:</B>
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- <P><LI>To list the available newsgroups, type <A
- HREF="news:*">news:*</A> in the URL field. An alphabetical list of
- newsgroups with brief descriptions is displayed. To list the articles in
- a newsgroup, click the name of the newsgroup.
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- <P><LI>To access a particular newsgroup, enter the URL using the syntax
- <B>news:<I>newsgroup</I></B>. For example: <A
- HREF="news:news.announce.newusers">news:news.announce.newusers.</A>
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- <P>NOTE: Unlike other URLs, news URLs do not include slashes
- (//) after the colon.
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- <P><LI>When you first access a newsgroup, the subject lines of the first
- 20 articles are listed. Click a subject line to display the full
- article. If an article is related to other messages, links to the
- related articles are provided.
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- <P><LI>To list a range of articles, type the URL of the newsgroup,
- followed by a slash and the range of articles. For example,
- news:news.answers/38179-38198
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