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The WGS 84 Newsgroups | Newsgroup Guidelines
Configuring Your News Reader
This information is provided as a general guide to set up your news reader. For detailed instructions, or if you are using a news reader which is not listed, please contact the manufacturer of your news reader software.
Netscape Communicator | Netscape 3.x | Internet Explorer 4.0
Internet Explorer 3.x | Agent | CompuServe | America Online
 Adding a news server and reading news in Netscape Communicator
With Communicator running:
Choose Communicator | Collabra Discussion Groups
Choose File | New Discussion Group Server
Type news.wgs84.com in the edit box.
Right-click on news.wgs84.com, and choose Subscribe to Discussion Groups.
A dialog box comes up. If you know the name of the newsgroups you wish to add, you can type it into the edit box labeled "Discussion Group" at the top of the dialog. If you don't know the name of the newsgroup, you can browse the tree structure until you find the newsgroup to which you wish to subscribe.
Once you have found your newsgroup, just click the Subscribe button to subscribe to the newsgroup.
When you return to the Netscape Message Center you will notice a plus sign in a box next to the news.wgs84.com news server. Click on the plus sign and a list of subscribed groups will drop down.
To read a particular subscribed group, just double-click the name of the newsgroup. The news reader is launched.
Message subject lines will be listed in the top pane. When you select a message in the top pane, the text of the message will appear in the bottom pane.
Adding a news server and reading news in Netscape 3.x
With Netscape running:
Choose Window | Netscape News
Choose File | Open News Host
Type news.wgs84.com in the edit box.
If you know that name of the newsgroup you wish to add, right-click on forums.WGS84.com, and choose Add Newsgroup. Then type the name of the newsgroup into the edit box. The newsgroup will be added to the list in the left hand pane. You will find a list of WGS 84 newsgroups here.
If you don't know the name of the newsgroup, or wish to browse the available newsgroups, right-click on news.wgs84.com, and choose Show All Newsgroups. A tree structure showing the available newsgroups will appear under news.wgs84.com.
Newsgroups will be listed in the left hand pane. Any messages in the selected newsgroup will appear in the right hand pane. Selecting a message in the right hand pane will cause the text of the message to appear in the bottom pane.
Configuring Netscape News Options
With Netscape or Netscape News running:
Choose Options | Mail and News Preferences
Under the Composition tab, select 'Mime Compliant'. Not all news readers can read 8-bit ASCII.
Under the Servers tab, be sure to specify a valid outgoing mail server. Posting of messages may not work if this server is not a valid mail server.
Under the Servers tab, specify news.wgs84.com if you wish to make WGS 84's news server your default news host (ie, if you don't normally read news from a different site).
Under the Servers tab, specify the number of messages you are downloading at a time. Netscape will not retrieve more messages per group than are specified in this line, so if you do not set this number to a high volume, you will not necessarily see all of the messages posted to a given group on a given day.
Under the Identity tab, specify your name. If you wish to make your e-mail address known to the public, set the e-mail and reply-to addresses appropriately. Note: Failure to set a Reply-to Address will, in most cases, prevent users from responding via private e-mail to your news posts.
Under the Organization tab, check Thread News Messages box, otherwise news messages will not be threaded.
Configuring Internet Explorer 4.0 to Read the WGS 84 Newsgroups
If you have Internet Explorer 3.x comfigured to read the WGS 84 newsgroups, Internet Explorer 4.0 will pick up your settings. Otherwise follow the instructions below:
Choose Go | News (Internet News starts)
Choose News | Options
Under the Send tab.
- News Sending Format: choose Plain Text.
- Click Settings.
- Under Plain Text Settings choose MIME, and set Encode text using: to None.
- Set Automatically wrap text at n characters when sending to 70 characters. Click OK.
Under the Server tab. Enter your name and address information. Click Add, and enter news.wgs84.com in the edit box. Click OK.
Internet Explorer will ask you if you wish to subscribe to newsgroups from this server. Click Yes.
Scroll the list to highlight the newsgroups to which you wish to subscribe and click Subscribe. Do this for all groups to which you want to subscribe. Then click OK.
Setting up Internet Explorer 3.x to Read News for the First Time
Choose Internet News from the Start | Programs menu, or Go | Read News from an Internet Explorer window. Work through the setup Wizard. It will ask you a series of questions. When the wizard asks you to enter your news server, enter news.wgs84.com, then answer the rest of the questions appropriately.
Follow the instructions below.
Adding a new news server
Choose News | Options
Under the Send tab,
- choose Plain Text
- click Settings
- choose MIME
- set Encode text using: to None.
Under the Read tab, set the number of messages downloaded at a time. Note: Internet Explorer will not retrieve more messages per group than are specified in this line, so if you do not set this number to a high volume, you will not necessarily see all of the messages posted in a given group on a given day.
Under the Server tab, make sure you have a valid e-mail address, and a valid replyto address.
Under the Server tab, if news.wgs84.com is not listed in the NewsServer box, click Add, and type news.wgs84.com.
Adding new newsgroups
Choose News | Newsgroups from the main menu.
In the edit box at the top of the dialog box, type the name of the newsgroup to which you wish to subscribe.
Click Subscribe.
Click Goto.
Configuring Agent to Read News
NOTE: This assumes you have already installed Agent and have it already connected to at least one news or e-mail server. If not, first install Agent in accordance with the manufacturer's directions.
Create a new directory anywhere on your hard drive. The most common place would most likely be a subdirectory underneath the storage location for Agent, but any directory will do.
Make a new Program Shortcut and set the following:
Target: C:\AGENT\AGENT.EXE (or wherever you have AGENT installed).
Start in: C:\NEWDIR (The drive and name of the new directory.
Copy the AGENT.INI file from your Agent\Data directory into the C:\NEWDIR directory. When you start Agent (if you've been using it already) you'll notice that all of your newsgroups have disappeared. This is normal, and when you run Agent from its normal shortcut, you will see your newsgroups again.
Now, choose Options | General Preferences from the main menu. In the User tab, set your Name, E-mail address, etc. In the System tab, set the News server to news.wgs84.com, and the mail server to the mail server for your Internet service.
Choose Online | Refresh Groups List
After the list of newsgroups refreshes, you can subscribe to a group in the list by right-clicking the group name and choosing Subscribe.
After subscribing to groups you are interested in, choose Online | Get New Headers in Subscribed Groups.
Accessing the WGS 84 Newsgroups via CompuServe
Follow the directions given by CompuServe.
Accessing the WGS 84 Newsgroups via America Online
In order to access the WGS 84 newsgroups via AOL, you need to be running either Netscape or Internet Explorer as your browser.
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