Thank for the help Mark. It's good to hear from you again.
Mark Hansen wrote:
You're using terminology which I don't completely understand, so my
help will be a guess at what you actually mean. I hope this is helpful...
On 3/19/2010 4:44 PM, Frog wrote:
I am currently subscribed to three accounts (established when I
purchased my computer). I would like to subscribe to others such groups
like genealogy, bird watching, traveling, etc, I don't know how to
access a complete listing of all possible groups that one can subscribe to.
I don't know what you mean by Accounts here. Do you mean e-mail accounts?
ISP accounts? Perhaps if you could provide us the names of these accounts,
it will become clearer.
By accounts I am referring to sites similar to the following (the three
that I currently have on my system):
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
mozilla.support.seamonkey
news.verizon.net
I have found the Microsoft and Mozilla groups to be a great place to
learn things about my computer and an even greater place find help when
I don't know how to solve a problem. The news.verizon.net is, however,
a mystery--Verizon is my ISP. When looking at the SeaMonkey mail window
I do the following: Click "Go">I click news.verison.net in the drop
down window that appears>a window titled "Subscription" opens and it
appears that my computer is attempting to connect to Verizon. After a
short time, a new window opens with the following comment--Connection to
server news.verizon.net timed out. The subscription window does not
list any news groups that I can subscribe to.
I was thinking that there must be thousands, if not millions, of such
sites on the Internet. I thought maybe there would be ones for
genealogy--bird watching--travel, etc. As I have likely stated on this
group before, I am retired and attempting to keep my mind busy learning
new things.
I hope this clarifies what I was referring to when I used "Accounts" in
my first message. I used accounts simply because each of the three
accounts listed above are included under Edit>Mail & Newsgroups Account
settings... on the SeaMonkey mail window. I called them accounts based
on this information.
When I click File (on the SeaMonkey Mail page)>open Subscribe--I can
only see the three Accounts that are currently subscribed to on my
system. Should I be able to (somehow) access the complete listing from
this window?
I'm using SM 1.1.16, but I don't see File -> Open -> Subscribe. Did you
mean File -> Subscribe?
Yes, File>Subscribe.
SM should be managing two types of "accounts" for you: E-Mail accounts
and News Group accounts.
That is correct. Included under Edit>Mail & Newsgroups Account settings
is a fourth Account for my E-Mail.
When I select my e-mail account (I use an IMAP server), I can subscribe
to specific mail boxes within that account.
See comment above. I am unable to connect to the Verizon listing of
newsgroups because of a "time out" problem.
When I select a news server account, I can subscribe to specific news
groups within that server. As an example, on news.mozilla.org news
server, I have subscribed to the mozilla.support.seamonkey news group
(among others).
I can also access sub news groups under Mozilla and Microsoft. I was
looking for some method of accessing other news groups pertaining to
other subjects.
Is there some place on the web that will help me with this subject?
This news groups seems fine :)
Also, I think I will have to establish a new entry in the Mail &
Newsgroups Account Settings for each group I subscribe to--is that correct?
Not for each news group you subscribe to. You just create a Newsgroup
account for the news server (like news.mozilla.org or one provided by
your ISP), then you can subscribe to individual news groups provided
by that server.
OK. I think I understand. Once I have a Mozilla account established on
my system--I can have any number of Mozilla subscriptions under this
Mozilla account.
I know that the answers to my questions are located someplace on the
Internet--but where?
Thanks for any information sent my way on this subject.
Windows XP Pro SP3 -- both SeaMonkey 1.1.18 and 2.0.3
Frog
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