Newsgroup usage guide
[Date: 2004-7-31] Source: Original Author: .com.cn [font: medium and small]
I have encountered problems during the computer use. Who should you ask for help? I want to find someone to discuss the upcoming Athens Olympic Games, where to find a way with the same? If you come to the newsgroup, then everything is likely to solve.
Newsgroups are not widely used in China, and there is no popularity based on web-based forums. However, in foreign countries, the newsgroup can be a good place to exchange and explore, and even many large companies provide support for users through news groups. This article is mainly for Microsoft Chinese newsgroups, while also including preparations for help and how to get better help.
Search before questioning
After you encounter problems during the use of the computer, please don't panic, first of all, you should understand that others can meet someone else, then how others solve it? If you want to know, just ask your online search. If there is no similar problem on the Internet, then it is not too late to come to the newsgroup.
For questions, recommend you to use the Google search engine, because you can also search for newsgroups because Google can also search. The hardest is valuable, like Google's web snapshot, Google also saves all newsgroup posts. In other words, as long as the post on the newsgroup, even if the original server has deleted the post, Google will still be retained here. This is equal to providing us with a huge information base, as long as the right keyword is not afraid, there is something to find.
If you want to search for web pages with Google, you can open http://www.google.com This website is searching; if you want to search for newsgroups, please open this address: http://groups.google.com, but sometimes This address may not be accessed because of various reasons. In this case you can try this address: http://www.google.com/groups. About Google's use skills, I suggest you search as keywords with the "Google Search Cloth to Been", or click here.
If you have not found a similar problem with you, you can start to ask questions on the newsgroup.
Preparation before questioning
To know, whether your problem can be resolved as soon as possible depends on the description of your problems you encounter. To make a detailed question as much as possible. Please assume that these two situations: a person's question is such a "my computer is unstable these two days, the total start, how to solve it", another person's question is this: "My computer The sky is always restarting, and there is still 60 second countdown timing before starting, prompting if there is a problem with LSASS.exe, how to solve this. " Naturally, as long as people who have a little experienced, they will immediately learn the virus virus of the network, and propose corresponding solutions after seeing the second person's questions. And the first person, everyone may first ask him to ask him, do you have any error prompts before starting? The other party answered the question; then, then ask, can you say what the specific content of the prompt? As a result, the other party just replied "Tips said that a process is wrong, the system is going to close"; then, if you have to ask again, "which process is wrong?", You can't make this information once? Such everyone is saving.
Naturally, the above example may have some exaggeration, but the fact is that, many people don't understand how to ask, even talking about a lot of self-thinking content, but there is no one to say some points. About this, please use the "question of wisdom" as the keyword to search online, or click here. I believe that you should understand how to ask for a perfect problem, of course, you can get the most perfect solution. On the news group post
If you have found your question by searching, congratulations; but if you don't have to find it, you can also ask you to help you through the news group. There are a lot of enthusiasts on the news group to help you.
Taking the Microsoft News Group as an example, two access methods are provided, one is a web-based web approach, and the other is based on client software (eg oe) NNTP mode. Under normal circumstances, I recommend you use NNTP mode, because you can enjoy the convenience provided by the newsgroup, but if you use your own network or just want to temporarily use the newsgroup, then web way is also very convenient.
The web way is the simplest, you only need to use browser software (such as Internet Explorer) to access this address at http://www.microsoft.com/china/community/newsgroup/nglist.aspx, then click on the topic you are interested in Yes. This will not do more introduction. But there is a point to pay attention to access the newsgroup through this address, you can't download the attachment of the post, and you can't add an attachment to your post.
If you decide to use NNTP mode, first you need to choose a client software. In general, you recommend that you use Outlook Express with all Windows operating systems (note, it is Outlook Express, not Outlook, this is two different software). If you don't want to use Outlook, there are still many other options, such as the old newsletter client software Agent, and Becky after the plugin is installed. However, this article will be described as an example. Because this software is the easiest, the support is best for Chinese, and free.
After running OE, click "Account" under the Tools menu, open the Internet Account dialog, and click the "Add" button on the right side, then click "News" in the pop-up menu (Figure 1), you will be able to See the Internet Connection Wizard dialog. In the first page, enter the other user on the newsgroup to see the name you display, then click Next. Then enter your email address, then click Next.
It should be noted that in order to prevent spam, Microsoft's newsgroup has taken a more effective measures, which is the suffix of ".discuss" after your email address. For example, my email address is root@cctips.com, then turn it into root@cctips.com.discuss after adding a suffix, so that the program collecting email address through the newsgroup is a suffix. Error address, and others know this address with an error suffix, if they want to send you a letter, it will manually delete the suffix, and not affect normal email communication.
Enter the address of the NNTP server on the third page. Microsoft's own NNTP server address is "msnews.microsoft.com", if you are using other transfer servers (this we will explain later), then enter the corresponding address. Because Microsoft's server is anonymous (most of the newsgroup servers on the Internet), therefore don't use the "My News Server needs to log in" option without selecting the following "My News Server I need to log in" option, click Next, and click Complete Exit. After turning off the "Internet Account" dialog, OE will ask you, do you now download newsgroup information from just added accounts, choose Yes, after a moment (depending on your network speed), you will be able to see Go to the "News Group Booking" dialog that is similar to Figure 2. Here, all groups on this server are displayed, you can enter some keywords in the "Newsgroup containing the following" box "box, which only shows the relevant newsgroups. For example, we want to display all the groups discussed in Chinese, just enter "CN" above, then you can see that all the words "CN" in the group name shown below, this means that these groups are using Chinese discussed. For groups of interest, you can complete the contract as long as you double-click;
After the contract is completed, close this dialog, you can see that the folder on the left side of the OE interface adds a folder with the previously created newsgroup server name, and all our subscribed groups are displayed. A subfolder is in it. First click on the name of the news server and set the synchronization mode in the panel on the right. As can be seen on the interface shown in Figure 3, OE supports synchronizing newsgroups using three ways: synchronize all messages, simultaneous synchronization, or simultaneous new mail headers. The meaning is as follows:
Synchronize all mail: OE will download all messages of this group from the server, as well as everyone's reply, as well as related attachments. If the content of this group is very much, then this synchronization process will take time.
Synchronous new email: OE will download all marked as unreaded messages from the server. But if you are the first visit to this group, all emails are not read, this will cost as much time with the previous option.
Synchronous New Meadow: OE will only download the header information of the message, such as the sender, sending time, and the subject. This way is suitable for users who dial-up Internet access, first online, download all the headers of all mail; then check the header of each message, make tagging yourself, then re-online, and only download it before downloading The tagged message. This is more expensive to save online.
This article assumes that you use the monthly broadband, so the speed and expenses are not a problem. But there is still a problem here, even if you use a broadband, we really have to spend time to download all emails back? You must know that many posts have returned to the newsgroup for a long time, some may have more than one year, and how many people are more popular, and there are hundreds of thousands of emails. All download these things are wasteful to account for disk space. Here I suggest you:
First, you don't have a synchronous mode setting, first click on each folder you contract, and enter. At this time, OE will download the first 300 (this number can be set in the option) The header of the message. At this time, you can click the "Update" command under the "Edit" menu, which is not only downloaded to the mail, together with the mail on the server, all mail is labeled as "read". Repeat such an operation in each group of your contract, and then set the synchronization mode after completion.
After entering a newsgroup, there are several main icons on the toolbar of OE available: new delivery, release new mail to the group; answer group, you can post your reply to the newsgroup; answer, you can take you Reply to the sender's personal mailbox; forward, you can send the currently selected mail to the mailbox of others. Use these buttons to complete ordinary operations. Precautions for using newsgroups
The newsgroup is a very interesting place, but there are still some questions that need everyone pay attention.
1, according to the correct group b delivery, try to avoid cross-sending. The first use of the newsgroup will definitely be amazed in the rich content of the newsgroup, up to the astronomy, basically, as long as someone is involved, it can be discussed here. Then there is a problem, and the main reasons for so many groups are to let everyone discuss all people concerned in a group. For example, if your computer uses a problem, you send the post to the group of pop music, it is not suitable. This is relatively easy to understand, but this problem is more serious on the Microsoft News Group, and all the groups here are discussing problems with Microsoft products, so some people are unable to judge what their own issues belong to which group is wrong. This thing is available. But there are some people, advocate that other groups "borrow people", he knows that the use of Word's use is definitely not suitable, but there is no one in the Word group, so he puts the problem to Windows. Group of XP. The mood of these people believe that everyone can understand, but it is not right after all, if there is no need, why is there so many groups? In addition, it is a cross-sending problem. The cross-sending means that when you use the software to browse the newsgroup, send an email to multiple groups, just like sending an email. This kind of problem is also easy to resent. If you deliver a relevant group, then it is better to say that some people can make more people to see that the malicious email is delivered to all groups. The practice can only recruit people.
2, language civilization. I believe this is also the very special courtesy of all online communities, even in life. The newsgroup is a place so disclosed. If you can't comply with the most basic etiquette, then it is equal to the face of people in the world. For this part, please search the article "Network etiquette" to see, or click here.
3, describe the problem with a concise summary. Many people tend to ignore the importance of the title when posting posts in the newsgroup. To know, others see your post first see the title, if you can't use a dozen words on the title, it may not be able to click on your post to see your specific content at all on your title. But also pay attention to, the title of the post is best used to describe the question, rather than "Helping !!!!!!", "master coming", "Master please, rookie do not enter", Or "**** please come in and see" this kind of word, such a practice or will let others ignore your post, or cause others to dislike you, and these don't help any help solve your problem. At the same time, some people put all the details of the post in the title, which is not suitable. If the title is too long, it will bring inconvenience to others, others may not see such a post.
4. The same question is as discussed in a post. If there is a problem, you need to discuss, it is best to reply directly, not published a new post. In this way, there is a strike, others can understand. If you always send the content of the reply as a new post, others may mix.
5. If your problem finally got solution, it is best to tell the post, and let go of your results. This one other person can know the problem. If there is no problem, if anyone else encounters the same problem, you can find your problem after finding your post, and what method solves it. . 6, format of posts. Most of the newsgroup servers only accept posts in plain text, and do not accept HTML format. Although Microsoft's server can send html post, it is recommended if it is not really necessary, it is better to have pure text. Because if someone views the newsgroup through the web, the post of HTML format will be displayed as garbled, and it cannot be distinguished. In addition, the post on the Google, HTML format of the post message group post will also become garbled. In order to easily read your post as much as possible, try to use the plain text format and use the GB2312 format to encode.
7, the size of the post. Although there are more and more people using broadband now, there is still someone who uses a very slow dial mode, so pay attention when adding an attachment to the post, try not to add more than 100KB attachments (limits on the server). In addition, if you reply to a relatively long post, and you have to pay attention to the content of the original post later, it is best to remove the content of the original post. For example, others have sent a 10,000-word post. You responded this post. Your reply may only dozens of words, but it quotes the 10,000-word post of others, which looks like your post. Time Download This item is not necessary for 10,000 words, causing inconvenience to others. One thing is to insert the picture of the picture's html format post. If you reply to this post, it is best to delete the picture (select the picture, press the delete key), or transfer your own reply into a plain text format (in Reply to the Edit Window Format menu Select "Pure Text"), otherwise your reply will bring the original image, which is not necessary.
The use of newsgroups is very simple, but it may encounter some problems when using it. We will explain and explain them more typically.
Q: Why do I see a lot of garbled when I use OE?
A: Taking the Microsoft News Group as an example, there are two main reasons for garbled: Posted did not use GB2312 encoding, or the other party posted through the web. First, click "Option" under the "Tool" menu of OE, open the Options dialog, then open the Read tab, and click the "International Settings" button to open the "Mail Reading International Settings" dialog box, then select it "Use the default encoding" option (Figure 4) for receiving messages, and make sure the default encoding displayed in the box is "Simplified Chinese (GB2312)".
For posts sent through the web page, because the posts sent by the web page have used UTF8 encoding, they will see garbled when using the software. Take OE as an example, select a piece of mail, then click "Encode" under the View menu, then select "Unicode (UTF-8) from the submenu. However, if each email chooses such a bit of trouble, the simpler method is to add this option to the toolbar of the OE, so you can switch the encoding directly. On the toolbar of the OE, click the right mouse button, then select Customize to open the Custom Toolbar dialog box, then find the "Encoding" button from the list on the left, and click the "Add" button to the right side. (Figure 5) Click "OK" to exit. In this way, there is an "encoding" icon on the toolbar. After you encounter such a post, you can choose the appropriate encoding. Here is something to pay attention to, for UTF8 encoded mail, it is best to re-adjust back to GB2312 encoding mode when you reply, otherwise it seems that your email is garbled. The method is to click "Encode" under the "Format" menu of the post window, and then select "Simplified Chinese (GB2312) in the submenu. Q: Why do I see a lot of posts showing a few decades?
A: These people use the characteristics of the Microsoft News Group server, sending the display time for decades, and manually causes "set". The person who is generally doing this may be to let everyone see their own post, or it is purely chaos, but there is no better solution to this phenomenon, so we can do it, try not to reply to this class. Posts and first delete from your client first. Although this person may have a reason to be very "reasonable", their approach has brought inconvenience to others, but also violates community guidelines, and it is not worth forgive.
Q: Why do you have a lot of messages or advertising posts, how can the moderator delete?
A: This problem involves a key characteristic of the newsgroup, which is the transfer between the NNTP server. Unlike the Web-form forum, the biggest feature of the newsgroup is that there is countless NNTP server that can be transferred to each other. Simply speaking, if I want to go online Easy web forum, I can only visit the Forum on the website of the network. But if I want to participate in the discussion of the newsgroup, I just want to find a server that turns a group. For example, I have to participate in the discussion of the Microsoft News Group, I can access the needed group on Microsoft's msnews.microsoft.com server, but if I have a server in my country to turn Microsoft's group, I can completely connect to the far connection located in the United States. Microsoft server, I can directly access the same group on my country's transfer server, so the speed is faster. I passed the local server to Microsoft.public.cn. ****** This group sent by this group automatically automatically across the server in a few minutes to all the transitions of this group. It can be seen here that the newsgroup is a quite free place, even if it is not well managed. Do you want to ban someone from posting a garbage post? Ok, Microsoft naturally has the right to manage its own server, but Is Microsoft has the right to manage all the transfer of server around the world? No. So if I really want to mess, just find a transfer server, then post this server, you can't deal with me. In a server, I have, I can find other servers, you have the ability to put all the transfer servers BAN? Can't, Microsoft may ban other servers from transferring their own group, but then it is not called UseNet. For Microsoft News Groups, in fact, all illegal posts have been applying from the master in the first time, but the moderator's operation and the time required between Microsoft's servers, one post is displayed in the moderator tool as deleted. However, it may actually exist in the server for a long time, this is currently not a good solution. Q: What should I do if I have more annoying?
A: If you use the software newsgroup, you can use the ability to block the sender. Suppose you don't want to see a person's post, then choose a post, and then click "Block Generator" under the "Mail" menu. This will be removed by OE using the email that uses the same email address.
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