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blupencl

2005-01-28, 7:49 am

OK. I can't navigate my way around Google well enough to find threads.

I have one question: How do I make SMT come up on XNews when all the
choices they gave me seem to be in German?

Boooo Hoooo!

Jeannie Wilson

2005-01-28, 7:49 am

"blupencl" <blupencl@aol.com> wrote here for all to
seenews:1106872172.604592.255730@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> I have one question: How do I make SMT come up on XNews when all the
> choices they gave me seem to be in German?
>
> Boooo Hoooo!

I remember having to scroll through about a gazillion things to get to the
sci.med.transcription to subscribe to it. It's been a while since I set it
up. Do you have the option of searching specifically for one particular
newsgroup?

blupencl

2005-01-28, 7:49 am

The options I had were completely foreign words with a bunch of
computer gobbledygook being discussed - in the minute few posts I found
in my mother tongue.

14tonks

2005-01-28, 7:50 am

Becky, what news server are you using, and where did you download Xnews
from?

I'm starting to think you went to the German page for news.individual.net
rather than the English one and/or downloaded a German version of Xnews.
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"blupencl" <blupencl@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1106875431.333234.263610@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> The options I had were completely foreign words with a bunch of
> computer gobbledygook being discussed - in the minute few posts I found
> in my mother tongue.

Jeannie Wilson

2005-01-28, 7:50 am

"blupencl" <blupencl@aol.com> wrote here for all to
seenews:1106875431.333234.263610@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

> The options I had were completely foreign words with a bunch of
> computer gobbledygook being discussed - in the minute few posts I found
> in my mother tongue.

Hmmm..don't know how to help you there. I never saw anything come up in
all German! LOL

blupencl

2005-01-28, 7:50 am

Well I have absolutely no idea what I did and I don't know where I got
it - I just googled and found it. I am interested in some of the other
ones, especially the one somebody had that doesn't have to be
downloaded.

Newserver? I thought that's what Xnews was!

14tonks

2005-01-28, 7:50 am

No, the news server is the server (computer) at news.individual.net, or
Comcast, or whatever ISP you use, that gets the newsfeed and downloads the
posts to you when you connect. The news reader is the software on your
desktop that you use to read those posts, such as Outlook Express, Free
Agent, Gravity, or Xnews.

If Xnews is giving you hives trying to configure it, do what Vickie did and
just set things up in Outlook Express. I will work fine; really. You
probably won't ever bother with half the features in Xnews. The direction
for OE are here:
http://news.individual.net/configur...utlook5_en.html
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Sheila
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"blupencl" <blupencl@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1106880335.310797.245190@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Well I have absolutely no idea what I did and I don't know where I got
> it - I just googled and found it. I am interested in some of the other
> ones, especially the one somebody had that doesn't have to be
> downloaded.
>
> Newserver? I thought that's what Xnews was!
>

blupencl

2005-01-28, 7:50 am

No news reader on my desktop. I have always gone through AOL to Usenet.
I will look at this some tomorrow - thanks for your help.

14tonks

2005-01-28, 7:50 am

Perhaps I should have expressed that as on your computer instead of "on your
desktop," although there is a good chance that Outlook Express does have an
icon on your desktop, and that is a news reader as well as an e-mail client.
It is the simplest option to use, since the software is already sitting
there as part of every Windows version.
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Sheila
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"blupencl" <blupencl@aol.com> wrote in message
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> No news reader on my desktop. I have always gone through AOL to Usenet.
> I will look at this some tomorrow - thanks for your help.

Judity

2005-01-31, 11:16 am

Becky, for the last couple days I've accessed SMT using the recommended
news.individual.net going through Outlook Express and am quite happy with
it. It's fast, I can hide the posts I've already read, and at the end I can
do a "catch up" that flags all posts as read including the ones I didn't
want to read.

I'm staying with AOL for everything else since reading newsgroups is only
part of what I go online for, but it's nice to know I don't have to depend
on Google to get to SMT now. Thanks, Sheila and whoever else told us about
news.individual.net. Oh, I also like it 'cause it's free!

Judity

blupencl

2005-01-31, 11:16 am

Arrgh I'm jealous. OE is the one that tells me something about POP3 (I
thought I'd done a screen shot of it, but it didn't work).
news.individual.net seems much, much simpler than the other ones, so
yes, thanks.

14tonks

2005-01-31, 11:16 am

POP3 is an e-mail protocol. It may just be telling you that you don't have a
mail account configured.

There are plenty of SMTers who would be happy to help you figure out what
your problems are, but we've got to have full text on error messages before
anyone can come up with any constructive suggestions for diagnoses and
cures.

Sheila
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"blupencl" <blupencl@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Arrgh I'm jealous. OE is the one that tells me something about POP3 (I
> thought I'd done a screen shot of it, but it didn't work).
> news.individual.net seems much, much simpler than the other ones, so
> yes, thanks.
>