Use the Groups property sheet to create, modify, or remove newsgroups from Microsoft NNTP Service. You can configure newsgroups with a moderator who must approve articles before they are posted. You can also restrict Write access for the newsgroup to the moderator.
The Groups property sheet contains the following options:
| Option | Description |
| Create new newsgroup | Enables you to create a new newsgroup. |
| Newsgroup | The name of the new newsgroup. |
| Description | A description of the newsgroup that can be displayed by clients. |
| Newsgroup pretty name | Another name for the newsgroup returned by the List Prettynames NNTP command that can be displayed by clients. This option accepts Unicode characters so that you can specify a newsgroup name using the character set of another language. |
| Read only | Restricts Write access to the newsgroup moderator. |
| Not moderated | Posts articles without sending them to a moderator for approval (the default setting). |
| Moderated by the default newsgroup moderator |
Sends articles to the newsgroup moderator at the following e-mail address before they are posted: newsgroup@default_domain where newsgroup is the name of the newsgroup and default_domain is the domain specified in the Default moderator domain box in the NNTP Settings property sheet. |
| Moderated by | The e-mail address of the newsgroup moderator. |
| Newsgroup name | Enables you to find a newsgroup by typing the first part of the newsgroup name and then choosing Find. |
| Limit results to | The maximum number of newsgroups listed in the Matching newsgroups box. |
| Matching newsgroups | The list of newsgroups defined for this news site. |