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| - Getting Started - | |
| How to setup the newsgroup service: | |
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| Currently, our help topics only support setting up newsgroup services with Outlook Express. | |
| Also, the news.illuma.net connection, only works for our Internet Access Dial-Up customers. For clients using our other services, you may be using another dial-up service provider, these instructions will help you, but you must use their respective settings. | |
| You may want to print this page, so that you can use it while you actually go through the steps of setting up your newsgroup service account. - Choose File, then choose, Print, while viewing this page. | |
| Experts: | |
| Newsgroup Service: news.illuma.net | |
| Authentication Scheme: i.p. address authenticated when using Illuminet Sciences, inc. dial-up service. | |
| New Users: | |
| Follow these steps: | |
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01. Connect to the internet using your Illuminet Sciences, inc. account. |
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| 02. Open your Outlook Express Program. | |
| 03. Click on "Tools" in the menu bar at the top. | |
| 04. Choose "Accounts" from the menu which drops down. | |
| 05. Click on the "News" tab, which appears in the new window. | |
| 06. Click "Add" on the right hand side. | |
| 07. Choose "News", from the list of choices which appears on the right. | |
| 08. In the box, choose a name you would like others to see, when you are using your newsgroup service. | |
| 09. Select "Next". | |
| 10. In the box, choose an email name, so that others can email you, when you are using your newsgroup service. | |
| 11. Select "Next". | |
| 12. In the box that reads, "NNTP server", type in "news.illuma.net". | |
| 13. Ignore the checkbox on that screen, and select "Next". | |
| 14. Click "Finish". | |
| 15. You should be back at the little window, and you should notice that under your news tab, there is a listing which reads, "news.illuma.net". Select "Close". | |
| 16. You should now be prompted with, "Would you like to download newsgroups from the news account you added?" Select "Yes". NOTE: There are nearly 40,000 groups that will be downloaded, this may take 5 to 10 minutes to download. | |
| 17. You should see the program attempting to connect to the newsgroup server, ,and it will be downloading many thousands of newsgroups, for you to choose from. | |
| 18. When this completes, you should see a list of all of the newsgroups available to you, and you can subscribe to as many as you like. | |
| 19. You will notice that in your general email area, your newsgroup services that you have subscribed to, are listed there. | |
| 20. You are finished! Have fun! | |