And it came to pass that Andy Civil wrote:
> I have established that there is an alternative newsgroup
> for Netscape 6 and I need help in getting to it.
>
> I have established that Netscape themselves run a server at
> secnews.netscape.com and that it uses a secure protocol to
> connect to it. I have got halfway by entering the url
> snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape6.windows
> in the browser, this starts a kind of "new account" wizard.
> So far so good, and I can see the names of the groups
> carried on this server. I am theoretically subscribed to
> netscape.netscape6.windows since I put that in the original
> url.
>
> My only remaining problem is that this group appears to have
> no messages, despite reading elsewhere that it is a high
> traffic group. Any ideas, anyone?
>
Yep - you have to manually change the port to 563, and check the
box for "use secure connections[SSl]"
When you open mail, Edit-Mail Account, look for the Secnews
Server, and select "server settings".
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}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( Dionysian Reveler
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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