RE: Can't post a new topic on newsgroups

[Guest currambera]

RE: Can't post a new topic on newsgroups

 

Thank you Bob I for your reply but like I said before you guys assume we know

how to do it like you. To answer your question, yes I have a pop up blocker

but at what moment do I hit the CTRL button? Tell me like to a 3-year old,

first you do this, then you do that. Sorry, but I am not computer savvy.

Also, I don't have Outlook, I have Windows Mail.

 

"Nelda" wrote:

> On my home computer - new Dell with Windows XP SP2 Home edition, I can log

> into the XP newgroups and can post a reply to a message, however it won't let

> me post a new topic question. When I click on the "New" icon, I get a little

> red fist showing and it won't go to the post screen. I have a dialup

> connection with Earthlink Total Access and Earthlink Accelerator running. I

> also have the Windows firewall and Symantec antivirus running. Any ideas on

> what the problem may be? Thanks for your time. I posted a previous message

> about the same computer won't let me download from Windows Updates. It looks

> for the updates for a minute or so then I get the error message "The website

> has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to

> view." and error code 0x8024001D.

>

[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Re: Can't post a new topic on newsgroups

 

Re: Can't post a new topic on newsgroups

 

currambera wrote:

> Thank you Bob I for your reply but like I said before you guys

> assume we know how to do it like you. To answer your question, yes

> I have a pop up blocker but at what moment do I hit the CTRL

> button? Tell me like to a 3-year old, first you do this, then you

> do that. Sorry, but I am not computer savvy. Also, I don't have

> Outlook, I have Windows Mail.

 

When you click NEW MESSAGE or POST or whatever would normally load a new

page. Hold down the CTRL key to bypass the function of the popup blocker.

So you would naturally want to do it the entire time y ou are doing

something the popup blocker would normally block.

 

However - you should setup Windows Mail to get to these newsgroups and then

you have no worries witrh popup blockers.

 

http://www.web-articles.info/e/a/title/Windows-Vista:-How-to-Read-News-with-Windows-Mail/

 

Setting Up Windows Mail to Read Newsgroups

 

When you set up Windows Mail for e-mail, it automatically sets itself up

with a news account for the Microsoft Communities newsgroups. This account

gives you access to a wide range of Microsoft related newsgroups. For wider

reading, you'll probably want to set Windows Mail up to read newsgroups

provided by your ISP or another online service provider. To set up Windows

Mail to read newsgroups, take the following steps:

 

1. Open Windows Mail as usual for example, choose Start E-mail.

2. Choose Tools Accounts. Windows Mail displays the Internet Accounts dialog

box.

3.Click the Add button. Windows Mail displays the Select Account Type screen

..

4. Select the Newsgroup Account item, and then click the Next button.

Windows Mail displays the Your Name screen.

5. In the Display Name text box, type the name you want to use for your

posts. Depending on whether you'll be posting personally or professionally,

you may want to use a pseudonym or a variation of your name.

6. Click the Next button. Windows Mail displays the Internet News E-mail

Address screen.

7. In the E-mail Address text box, type the e-mail address that you want to

use for your posts. You may want to use a variation of your real e-mail

address to throw off spammers.

8. Click the Next button. The wizard displays the Internet News Server Name

screen.

9. Type the name of your news server in the News NNTP Server text box. If

you don't know the name, consult your ISP.

10. If you need to log on to the news server, select the My News Server

Requires Me to Log On check box. Many news servers don't require you to log

on.

11. Click the Next button. If you didn't select the check box in the

previous step, the wizard displays its Congratulations page. Go to step 13.

12. If you did select the My News Server Requires Me to Log On check box,

the wizard displays the Internet News Server Logon screen. Enter your

account name and password. Select the Remember Password check box if you

think the convenience of not having to enter the password outweighs the

marginal risk of storing it. Then click the Next button. The wizard displays

the Congratulations page.

13.Click the Finish button. The wizard closes, returning you to the Internet

Accounts dialog box.

14. Click the Close button. Windows Mail displays the Subscribe to

Newsgroups dialog box.

15. Click the appropriate button:

 

.. If you want to use Windows Mail's Communities features which include the

ability to see message ratings and rankings and download a list of

newsgroups, click the Show Available Newsgroups and Turn on Communities

button. At this writing, many newsgroups do not support Communities, and in

others, the Communities features appear not to be fully implemented - but

matters may have improved by the time you read this.

 

.. If you just want to download a list of newsgroups, click the Show

Available Newsgroups, but Don't Turn on Communities button.

 

.. If you don't want to download the list of newsgroups now, click the Don't

Download Newsgroups Now button. You'll need to download the list of

newsgroups at some point, but if you're currently using a dial-up

connection, you might prefer to leave the download until later.

 

16.If you chose to download the newsgroups, Windows Mail displays the

Downloading Newsgroups dialog box while it downloads them.

 

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MS-MVP

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