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Re: eudora thread bug
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:11:32 GMT
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GREAT write up! crossposted this reply to .faq because it's that good.
Nephilim wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Rachel Kingston writes:
> > .admin.genIn lugneteral, Kevin Salm writes:
> > >
> > > Personal experience with Netscape News has been very troublesome. I love
> > > Netscape Navigator but Net-News likes to crash my machine or at least freeze • it
> > > up whenever I am multitasking, especially if I have Outlook Express or • Internet
> > > Explorer running. (Internet Explorer and Netscape do not even like to be on
> > > the same machines sometimes)
> > >
> > > The recommendation to try Netscape News may not be a good one. Todd used to
> > > swear by Forte Free Agent and/or Agent; now I believe he promotes Microplanet
> > > Gravity as newsreader. I am a happy Gravity user myself but I do rely on
> > > Outlook Express for my primary mail/news client.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Ok guys I really dont know what all this means, as a new computer user!! let
> > alone new Lugnetter, newsgroup reader etc etc....I was hoping you could help
> > ME????? (I really do want to know)
> >
> > I am running windows NT on a pentium 111, have got netscape communicator, and
> > Internet explorer, but am only using explorer, I don't even know what a
> > newsreader is!
> >
> > I recieve all my lugnet subscriptions via emails, and it is clumsy and labour
> > intensive, explorer also freezes on a regular basis.
> > [snip]
> > Rachel (slinking away with her tail between her legs humiliated at her own
> > inadequacies)
>
> Don't slink away!
>
> I use the web interface to LUGNET, for the most part. But you would
> probably enjoy using a news reader MUCH more than using email to browse
> the groups. (Although I know some people do prefer the email subscriptions.)
>
> A Newsreader is a software program that lets you read messages from
> an NNTP news server. LUGNET is run on an NNTP news server, so you can
> use a newsreader to read the messages posted here. (That sounds circular,
> sorry.)
>
> Background history: NNTP stands for Network News Transfer Protocol. It's
> a protocol designed to facilitate the transfer of messages from one
> computer to the next.
>
> Have you heard of newsgroups? Usenet? Many people now read Usenet newsgroups
> by going to www.deja.com or www.remarq.com, but Usenet is a network of
> computers running the NNTP software. A message posted on one machine
> (one "news server") is propogated through the rest of the network.
> Almost every ISP has their own news server, so you can get Usenet newsgroups
> directly from your own ISP, although it seems like newsgroup service is
> getting shoddier and shoddier as most of the world-wide-web users don't
> know or care what newsgroups are. (rec.toys.lego is a newsgroup).
>
> Anyway, LUGNET is run on a stand-alone NNTP server. This means that,
> like the Usenet network, you can post messages to it and read messages
> on it using newsreader software, but since it is stand-alone, it
> does not propogate messages posted to it to other news servers on the
> internet.
>
> Enough background information? Too confusing? Sorry ... let's get
> into configuring your newsreader. Yes, you already have a newsreader
> installed on your computer.
>
> Since you have Netscape Communicator installed, I know you have the
> Netscape newsreader software installed. You just have to know how
> to get to it. =)
>
> Also, you *probably* also have Outlook's News Reader installed, but
> perhaps not.
>
> I'll point you to Netscape's newsreader.
>
> 1. Launch Netscape Communicator.
> 2. Click on the "Communicator" menu, and one of the choices there
> is "Newsgroups." Taa-daah! That's how you launch the netscape
> news reader.
>
> Configuring the newsreader - you'll have to configure it before you can
> use it.
>
> Configuring Netscape Communicator's News Reader to read LUGNET.
>
> 1. Visit http://www.lugnet.com/news/ -- which provides key information.
> (You shouldn't have to fill out the posting form again, since
> you've done so already. Just make sure that you configure your
> news reader with the same settings that you've given to LUGNET
> in the past in terms of name and email address.)
>
> 2. Open the preferences. Under Netscape's "Edit" menu, choose "preferences."
>
> 3. Find the "Mail and Newsgroups" section of the preferences.
>
> 4. Fill out the "Identity" tab. (Put in your name and email address
> exactly as you already have. Rachel Kingston, email addy
> Kingston@spirit.com.au
>
> Now, you're going to add LUGNET as a news server.
>
> 5. In the preferences, Click on the "News Servers" tab.
>
> 6. Click the "Add" Button.
>
> 7. As specified at the http://www.lugnet.com/news/ information page,
> configure the newserver as news.lugnet.com -- port 119.
>
> 8. Set this as your default news server, if you want to, by pressing
> the "set as default" button.
>
> 9. Optional step - while you're there, you might want to also configure
> Netscape to access your ISP's usenet server, so you can read the
> usenet news groups. Try adding news.spirit.com.au as a server
> (also using port 119).
>
> 10. Save your preferences by closing the preference window.
>
> Then, launch the newsreader (as outlined way up there - choose "News Groups"
> from the Communicator menu.
>
> After you've launched the newsreader, you will see LUGNET listed as a
> news server. "left-click" on the server name, and choose "Open News
> Server," which will start the process of downloading a list of all
> newsgroups that LUGNET offers. (This can take a long time on a regular
> news server, but should be pretty fast on LUGNET - which offers only
> a few-dozen newsgroups, rather than the ten thousand or so usenet
> newsgroups.)
>
> Once the list of newsgroups is downloaded, you can subscribe to the
> ones you want to read.
>
> If you need more help in subscribing or reading messages via the netscape
> communicator news reader, ask! But the above steps should hopefully
> at least get you to the point where you know how to launch your
> newsreader software and have successfully configured your software
> to find the LUGNET news server. That's more than half the battle,
> and figuring out how to subscribe and read the messages is a piece
> of cake. But if you need more help, don't be shy about asking.
>
> --
>
> jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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