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- You can use Mosaic to read <A
- HREF="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/text/faq/usenet/usenet/what-is/part1/faq.html">Usenet
- newsgroups</A> if you subscribe to a news server. To <I>post</I>
- articles to newsgroups, you'll need a full-featured news program.
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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>In the News Server field, enter the domain name of the news server
- to which you subscribe.
- <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. Click on a newsgroup
- name to list the articles in that newsgroup.
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- <P><LI>To access a particular newsgroup, enter a news
- URL of the form <I>news:group</I>. For example <A
- HREF="news:news.announce.newusers">news:news.announce.newusers</A>.
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- <P><I>Note</I> - 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 specify the range of articles to list, 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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