On 08 Sep 2002, it is alleged that Donna Shore sauntered in to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Jay, > > Guess what? when I clicked on this URL: > snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape7.macintosh > > This is the message I rec'd: > The newsgroup netscape.netscape7.macintosh does not appear to exist on > the host secnews.netscape.com. Would you like to unsubscribe from it? > > Now what do I do? > > Donna Use the usual kludge, I guess. :-\ Set up an account for the news server (secnews.netscape.com), the go to Edit | Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings | [news-account] | Server Settings and tick the box that sez 'User secure connection (SSL)'; this will change the port number to 563. You should then be able to subscribe w/o any problems. /b. <snip /> -- Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to: * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32 * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac * snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
