On 3/19/2010 9:51 PM, Frog wrote: > 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
Fine. Those are news group server accounts. > 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. It sounds like your news group account is not set up properly. You should check with the IPS to see what you should be using. To set the account properties, go to Edit -> Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings, then navigate in the left-hand tree view to news.verizon.net. The pages associated with that entry provide all the configuration. Perhaps they need authentication or a different port number, etc. Are you sure that "news.verizon.net" even exists? You should be able to browse to your IPS's support page and get help on setting up the news group account. Note that they won't provide instructions for SeaMonkey, but the configuration "items" will be basically the same as, for example, Firefox (host name, port, etc.) > > 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. Each news server (like news.verizon.net or news.mozilla.org) will have it's own set of news groups. The Mozilla server will have Mozilla-specific groups only. However, most news servers carry most of the usenet groups (groups on just about every topic you can imagine). There may be news servers (notice I said "servers") which are dedicated to bird watching, but I'm not aware of any. > > 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. They are accounts. More specifically, they are news group accounts. As there are other types of accounts, if you just say "accounts" we won't know which type of account you're talking about. :) _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
