Frog wrote:
Thanks for helping me. I need one more piece of guidance having to do
with news servers. You say to find a news server you want and add the
account. Okay, for example purposes, let me say I am looking for an
account having to do with Western Digital Hard Drives. Are you saying
that I would do a Google search for Western Digital News Servers or is
there someplace where one can access/select from a complete list of
newsgroups?
here is a list of specialized news servers:
http://www.nyx.net/~bkraft/ . It may or may not
contain what you want. For example, if you look on
there, there is one for opera. Well, thats for the
Opera browser. Then, there's one for IBM. Thats for
IBM software. There's also one for Microsoft, and
well, I'm sure you know what that is. Thats right, any
and everything related to MS products. In otherwords,
those servers are specifically for certain things.
If you look in the next group, there is a listing of
FREE public usenet servers that you may access. Some
require passwords, and some don't. These servers will
carry just about the same groups that googlegroups will
carry -- http://groups.google.com/. This is the place
where you'll find out about what groups they carry, and
what groups will be on usenet servers. They don't
carry binary groups. Those are gruops that have
pictures, movies, audios, software, etc. You'll have
to hunt around for those, or pay for the service.
Some people won't use google groups, instead they'd
rather use a usenet server and access the groups that way.
I do note that if I click File>Subscribe while in this
newsgroup I am able to see a listing of Mozilla groups.
thats right. These groups are for Mozilla products.
How was this
and other newsgroups found in the first place.
visit their website. For mozilla, you would have gone
to http://www.mozilla.org. Then you'd look around in
there for support or for community. This would have
lead you to certain pages that had info about
newsgroups, forums, and other places to get help.
Also, if you click on Help in just about any program,
that too might give a listing of where to get support.
In SM case, you click on Help, Help Contents, and if
you scrolled down the list, then you'd see Peer
Support, and see something about User Newsgroups.
Another way, is to visit the SeaMonkey website. Or
click on that thing that looks like a Blue Bird in the
upper right hand corner. At the site, you'd see
something about Community and Support. Always look for
something where you can find help or support for the
product you're using.
Sorry for such a beginner question, but the bottom line is I don't know
how to find the news server I would like to access.
well, thats what we're here for. I don't think Western
Digital Hard Drives will have their own news server,
and I doubt there will be anything on google or usenet.
Therefore, you'll have to think generic, such as
looking for a group on hard drives.
There is also another way to access help, and thats by
web forums. They are different from usenet servers, as
everything is done on the web. Some people like this
method and others, like me, hate them. And Western
Digital does have one:
http://websupport.wdc.com/forum/, but it seems to be
unavailable at the moment.
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