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MSGID: 3:634/397.0 480a98e8
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CHRS: IBMPC 2
SL>G'day All!
SL>It seems I am having problems getting any listings of newsgroups and am 
hoping
SL>someone can help me :-(
SL>The problem is in the setup (I expect) when setting up an account I get 
asked
SL>for a server name and have no idea what I am supposed to put there. I have
SL>tried all sorts of different odd server names, but as a response I am then 
only
SL>told Outlook was not able to connect to it.
SL>Can any help me with what server name I should be putting to be able to 
collect
SL>newsgroups or point me in the direction where I could find out :-(
There's absolutely no way for any of us to answer that question based on
the information you provided. First of all, every ISP or USENET provider
has a different name for its server. That's the name that you need to
put in the server ID box of your news reader. You should your ISP's tech
support or USENET admin. what that server is.
If you're connecting to your own ISP's news server, chances are you
don't have to have a user name and password, but if you're on a pay news
feed, you probably were assigned one. You'll need to put that in too and
tell the news reader to use it when it attempts to log in.
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