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Question: Guide to accessing the newsgroup using Microsoft Outlook Express
Answer:
Subscribing to the VROC Newsgroup
1. Open Outlook Express and select Tools> Accounts
2. Select the Mail tab and Add> News…
3. Enter your desired Display Name. This will be displayed in the Newsgroup with [VROC #nnnn] appended to it. Once filled in, select Next.
4. Fill in your email address. For replies directly back to you, this must be valid. If you don’t care, the fill in anything you want. Once filled in, select Next.
5. Fill in the News server, in this case, news.vroc.org. Make sure “My news server requires me to log on” is checked. Once filled in, select Next.
6. Fill in your Account name (use your VROC number here, numeric digits only, no leading spaces, no -R or other suffixes, no other characters) and Password (use your website Member Profile password). Once filled in, select Next.
7. Yippee!! You are done. Select Finish.
8. Close the Internet Accounts wizard.
9. Back in the Outlook Express main window, in the left panel you should now see a new entry called news.vroc.org. Selecting this should bring up a pop-up. Select Yes.
10. A new wizard will start showing News Accounts and Subscriptions. It will only take a moment to download available newsgroups from the server.
11. Select the newsgroup of interest. Typically local.vroc.techtalk. Then select Subscribe. If you are not interested in any other newsgroups, select OK.
12. Back in the Outlook Express main window, where you saw news.vroc.org, you will see group(s) underneath it. By selecting a group, all new messages will be downloaded.
13. To start a new discussion thread, select New Post. Otherwise, select a posting in the right panel. To reply to an existing post, select Reply Group. To reply to the individual who posted, select Reply (their email has to be valid as stated in Step 4. To forward to yet another email account, select Forward.
