Accessing Newsgroups via Outlook Express

• Choose start-->programs-->Outlook Express
•  Once OE opens, select tools-->accounts
• Select the "News" tab

•  Select Add--> News

•  Make up a fake display name and click next.

•  Make up a fake email address and click next.

•  The news server we use at the college is news.bellatlantic.net. Enter it and click next.
• Click Finish
• Click Close

•  You'll be asked if you'd like to download newsgroups. Choose "Yes."
• A list of thousands of newsgroup names will be downloaded and listed alphabetically. You should notice a tremendous number of newsgroup hierarchies that do not belong to USENET.
• You can subscribe to newsgroups by sorting through them individually. When you find a newsgroup you want to subscribe to, highlight it and click the subscribe button. An icon will appear to the left of the newsgroup name indicating that you've subscribed to that group. To unsubscribe, simply highlight a group you're subscribed to and click the unsubscribe button.
• You can also search via the groups' names. Once you type a search string into the textbox below "Display newsgroups which contain" your results will automatically be filtered.

• Once you click OK, a window similar to the following will appear.
  

•  Double click on a message or a thread to view its contents.