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Double-click the "Outlook Express" icon to start Microsoft
Outlook Express.
Click the Tools menu, then
click Accounts....
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On the "Internet Accounts" page, click the Add
button, then click the News... menu item.
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In the "Display Name" box, enter your name as you want it to appear on
your e-mail messages.
Then click the Next button.
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In the "E-mail address" box, enter your e-mail address
(which is your Gallatin River username followed by @grics.net).
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In the "News (NNTP) server" box, enter news.grics.net
Put a check in the box labeled "My news server requires me to log on".
Then click the Next button.
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In the "Account name" box, enter your username using the syntax
username.grics.net@grics.net.
(For instance, if your Gallatin River username is
johndoe.grics.net, enter johndoe.grics.net@grics.net
in the "Account name" box.)
In the "Password" box, enter your Gallatin River password.
Then click the Next button.
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You are now ready to begin subscribing, reading, and posting to any
of the thousands of newsgroups available to you!
Click the Finish button.
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You will see the new newsgroup account you have created listed in the
Accounts window (along with any other accounts you may have set up, such
as e-mail.)
Click the Close button.
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If you would like to get a list of available newsgroups now, click the
Yes button. Otherwise click No to return to the main
Outlook Express window.
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Outlook Express will download a list of available newsgroups, which
may take a few minutes.
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Once the list of newsgroups has been retrieved, you choose which
ones you want to subscribe to. Scroll through the list and double-click
those you want to subscribe to (or click the newsgroup name, then click
the Subscribe button.
You can also search for newsgroups by typing in one or more keywords
in the "Display newsgroups which contain" box above the list of newsgroups.
Newsgroups you have subscribed to will have a
icon next to them.
Once you've subscribed to the groups you want to read and/or post to,
click the OK button.
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Back on the main Outlook Express screen, you should see the
news.grics.net server listed in the left frame, containing
all the newsgroups you have subscribed to.
You can now begin reading and posting new messages just like you do
with Outlook Express e-mail. Double-click a message in the message
window to read it, or click the
icon next to a message to view
the entire thread of discussion on that topic.
To post a new message of your own, use the New Post button.
To post a reply to a message on the group, use the Reply
Group button. To send a reply to the message's author
directly, without posting your message to the group, use the
Reply button.
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