Microsoft's Outlook Express is not only a mail client software, but also a very good newsgroup reading tool, full-featured, easy to operate, full Chinese interface, supporting multiple news accounts, is the first choice for accessing newsgroups for ordinary users. First, the newsgroup setting Use Outlook Express to access the newsgroup, first, we must first know the name of the news server, Microsoft News Group Server is: msnews.microsoft.com. 1. Establish a news server connection to select "Account" window below the main menu "Tool", pop up an "Add" window, click the "Add" button, select "News" window, follow the prompts to fill in We hope that the name, email address (name, mail address) displayed when you publish your article on the newsgroup, but you will not receive the reply letter when you use a fake address) and the news server msnews.microsoft.com. 2. There are many discussion groups on the booklet news server. After booking a discussion group, we can accept it. When you log in to the newsgroup for the first time, OE will prompt us to connect to the server and download the news group list. After the connection is successful, all newsgroup projects on this news server will be displayed. In order to quickly find the newsgroup you need to book, we can Enter all Chinese newsgroups in the "Newsgroup containing the following newsgroup", the list will appear, select a discussion group, press the subscription button on the right. Book all the newsgroups we are interested in according to this method. 3. Basic Operation Method 1 Download the title: For our booking newsgroup, as long as it is selected in the folder window (click) it, it will automatically connect to the title of the new message on the news server, displayed in the message window. If we are interested in a message, select it in the message window, OE automatically downloads the contents of this title from the news server, and is displayed in the preview window below. 2 Message Reply: If we want to participate in a discussion of a question on the newsgroup, right-click this message in the message window, you can see that there are two commands about the reply, one is "Reply News Group", the other is " Reply sender, "In the shortcut button, the corresponding" Reply Group "and" Reply Author "button. "Reply News Group" is published on our news to the news server. Others can see that their way is similar to writing emails, just write our ideas in the main window, then press the "Send" button. Send it to the news server; "Reply Generator" is sent directly to the other party's email, so others cannot see our reply on the newsgroup, which is more suitable for private discussions. These two reply methods we can choose according to your needs. 3 publishing article: If we have a problem with you, you can ask for people, or have any new ideas, you can send it to the newsgroup, let everyone help us. Select in the folder list in which discussion group, then press the "New Delivery" button to pop up the window similar to editing email, edit your own content, remember must write the topic. 4 Delete the message: Everyone has a mistake, if we have sent an incorrect message, please tell the master through the email, the moderator is deleted on the server, so that later people can't see the wrong message. . The message already downloaded is automatically canceled by "update". 5 Offline Browse: Offline browsing is the biggest advantage of OE access. Online browsing also consumes a lot of Internet time, and these issues can be avoided if the approach to offline browsing can avoid these issues.
When you browse online, we only need to download the title of the message, when you are browsing, we need to download the messages on the booking group to the local, so you can complete each message. First, we need to determine how many new messages each time you download. Using the Option command under the OE main menu "Tool", click the "Read" tab, "OE defaults for 300 news titles each time), press" OK "After you withdraw. Then we select the newsgroup you wish to browse offline in the folder list, use the Synchronous News Group command under the main menu "Tool", select "Get the following items", "all messages", OE will take us from the news server Take it back to our set number of messages, you can continue reading after departure. 4. Advanced Skill 1 Settings Signature: Using Auto Signatures You can avoid sending a message, every time you have to sign your own name, if you add some aphorism, your wellness will improve on the newsgroup. Using the "Options" command under the main menu "Tool", click the "Signature" tab, press the "New" button to enter "Text" below "Edit Signature" and enter your own signature in the input box. Remember to put the above "Sign in all the mail to mail" to the selected, otherwise it will be invalid. In addition, the signature should not be too long, not there is a picture, otherwise it will affect the time to download the message. 2 Local Delete Messages Remove the message in the OE to remove one or more messages like E-mail, we can only remove it in Tools - "Options" - Maintenance. Select the text of the news in the newsgroup ", press the" Immediate Clear "button to delete all the text texts that have been read; also in the" News Group Mail Download X-day, "is deleted" to modify the number of default days, default is 5 Day, the message will be automatically deleted after the default day. 3 Filter messages and filter E-mail, we can also filter messages in the newsgroup, such as the news that we publish it. We can create through the main menu "Tool" - "Mail Rules" - "News" or "Block" or "Block" or "By Mail Creating Rules" quickly set up. General Rules: 1. Send new delivery to related groups, such as the issue of Outlook Express, to send to OE groups. 2, do not reply and send a discussion with the corresponding group. 3, do not use the words similar to SOS, help, beg, etc., as much as possible in the topic, don't be too long as possible. 4, do not change your name (nickname), help to shape your virtual image. 5. If you have any questions, contact the moderator, feedback information.
As can be seen in the previous introduction, it is very simple to join the news group through Outlook Express, but there is some problems with the professional newsgroup reading software. For example, there are too many resource resources, the startup speed is slow, if the news server The number of discussion groups is too prone to problems, but for ordinary users, the use of Outlook Express is still a good choice.
