Subscribing to Newsgroups

With so many newsgroups available, you’ll probably want to be selective about the ones you review. You can do so in Windows Mail by subscribing to the newsgroups you like. Those newsgroups will appear in the message pane when you select the news server, and they’ll also appear on the Folders bar, if it’s displayed, when you expand the listing for a news server. (Many newsgroups are now based on Web pages, so you can access them by using your Internet browser.)

Specify Your Newsgroups

  1. With Windows Mail open and connected to the Internet, click the news server you want to access.

  2. If you receive a notification that you’re not ...

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