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- HOW TO SET UP USENET
- BY CHRIS HAUS Cust 250 Forum Assistant
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- Select item B from the F5 Messages menu.
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- Select ADD A GROUP, you will see a list of all of the current
- available groups, the list is quite long. There are more than
- just the ALT. groups, so be sure not miss any <G>. Find the
- name of the group you wish to access, press ESC and type the
- exact entire name into the space provided on the screen.
- A confirmation screen will appear asking if this name is
- correct.
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- After you've answered YES, another screen will appear with a
- brief name of the group. You can edit this one, if you like,
- to anything you wish, just like you can the forums and sigs.
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- You will then be asked if you would like to make this group
- PERMANENT. If you say YES, RAINBOW access this group on every
- pass, and the first time, it will get only 50 messages. After
- that it will get ALL new messages which you have not yet
- downloaded. You might be surprised to find your self
- downloading hundreds of messages. MY SUGGESTION......say NO.
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- Once you have all of the groups you want entered, select them
- one by one. The next screen give you instructions on how to
- get the HIGH and LOW message range for the group. Change the
- 1- in the highlighted box to 0. On your next pass, to delphi,
- select CUSTOM RUN and include 99 for USENET and RAINBOW will
- go to each group and get only the HIGH and LOW message numbers.
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- You can select option B again from the F5 messages menu to
- select whether to now get ALL of the messages posted to the
- group, a range of messages, subjects only, or headers only.
- If you want ALL of the messages do not change the number in the
- block. If you want a range, backspace out the number that is
- there, and type in the range. For headers or subjects add
- either an H or an S before the -, or select a range for either
- (ie 100S-, 350S-500S, 550H-800H, etc). On your next pass,
- RAINBOW will get what you've requested.
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- If you are like me, you will probably want the last 50-100
- messages posted.
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- If you've selected subjects or headers only, you will need
- to once again select option B from the F5 menu, select the
- group, and a box will appear asking if you would like the list
- sorted. This puts all of the threads together so you can follow
- the conversation. Select the subjects or headers you want to
- get the complete message for, and RAINBOW will get the messages
- on the next pass.
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- Once you have actually received the messages, you will see the
- groups listed with your forums and you can read the messages
- just like you do forum messages.
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