Setting connection preferences
You can set connection preferences so that you connect to a preset news server when you start Newsgroups. For information about starting Newsgroups, see "Starting Newsgroups and connecting to a news server." Newsgroups automatically connects to the preset news server when you start Newsgroups. The connection authentication limits access to the Newsgroups if other users are logged in to your computer. You can set a user name and password to use for connection authentication. (Newsgroups will prompt you for a user name and password when you try to connect to a news server.) You can specify the number of articles to download from the news server when Newsgroups connects to the server. This is useful when there is a large number of articles on the server and you want to avoid scrolling through them.
To set the news server to connect on startup
1. Click the Application Starter, Applications, Network, Newsgroups.
2. Click Options, NNTP Options.
3. Enable the Connect On Startup check box.
To set the news server to connect without asking
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 from the previous procedure.
2. Enable the Connect Without Asking check box.
To set connection authentication
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 from the "To set the news server to connect on startup" procedure.
2. Enable the Authenticate check box.
To set user name and password
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 from the "To set the news server to connect on startup" procedure.
2. Type a user name in the User Name box.
3. Type a password in the Password box.
To set maximum download number
1. Follow steps 1 and 2 from the "To set the news server to connect on startup" procedure.
2. In the Ask Before Downloading More Than box, type the maximum number of articles you want to download.