Re: Accessing This Group

My question is how do I access this group with a PC.

To do it "right" you will need Email/newsgroup software, and a news account. If you are on a Windows PC, it comes with Outlook (or Outlook Express) which will do, but there is much better free software out there. Netscape (up to 7.2), Mozilla, and Thunderbird are a few of them, others will be suggested here. They work pretty much the same way. In the setup or preferences for these programs you create a new account for your newsgroups. An "account" simply tells your computer how to access the newsgroups (or Email) through your ISP, which almost certainly provides newsgroup access (Though not all ISPs provide access to all newsgroups, most cover most). Your news program will ask for the server settings (where to connect, for example, news.snet.sbcglobal.net; this info is available from your ISP) and a few other things. Once the account is created (you have an ISP that will supply newsgroups, and your Email/news software knows how to connect to it), then you "subscribe" to the groups you are interested in. Subscribing means that when you tell your software to "get messages", it gets the new messages from those newsgroups to which you have subscribed, and keeps track of what you have read and what you have not yet read. You post by "replying" to a given message, or by "Composing" a new message. It works just like Email from that software.

The method is similar on a Mac or on Linux, but I am not familiar with their software.

Although there are some websites that let you post (for example, google groups), it is far clumsier, both for you and for the ultimate readers. There are also web sites that provide a feed to specific newsgroups, and pretent that they are blogs or message boards that "belong" to that web site. Don't be fooled.

Jose
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