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<h1 id="getting_started_with_newsgroups">Getting Started With Newsgroups</h1>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#subscribing_to_newsgroups">Subscribing to Newsgroups</a></li>
<li><a href="#reading_newsgroup_messages">Reading Newsgroup
Messages</a></li>
<li><a href="#posting_newsgroup_messages">Posting Newsgroup
Messages</a></li>
<li><a href="#contributing_to_ongoing_discussions">Contributing to Ongoing
Discussions</a></li>
<li><a href="#monitoring_threads">Monitoring Threads</a></li>
<li><a href="#removing_a_newsgroup">Removing a Newsgroup</a></li>
<li><a href="#adding_a_newsgroup_server">Adding a Newsgroup Server</a></li>
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<h2 id="subscribing_to_newsgroups">Subscribing to Newsgroups</h2>
<p>If you have set up an <a href="#adding_a_newsgroup_server">account</a> on a
newsgroup server, you can join (subscribe) to newsgroups (also called
discussion groups).</p>
<p>To subscribe to a newsgroup, begin from the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the File menu and choose Subscribe. You see the Subscribe dialogue
box.</li>
<li>If necessary, click the Account drop-down list to choose another
newsgroup account.</li>
<li>Select a newsgroup. To select more than one newsgroup,
<kbd class="mac">Cmd</kbd><kbd class="noMac">Ctrl</kbd>-click additional
newsgroup.</li>
<li>Click Subscribe or click in the Subscribe column next to the newsgroup.
You see a tick mark next to each newsgroup to which you subscribe. Click
Unsubscribe to cancel a selection.</li>
<li>Click OK. The list of your subscribed newsgroups appears in the Mail
window.</li>
</ol>
<p>If you are an IMAP mail user, you can also subscribe to message folders
located on an IMAP server. (Your Inbox is a type of message folder.) Follow
the instructions above for subscribing, but select an IMAP account from the
Account drop-down list. For more information on sharing folders and
subscribing to folders, see
<a href="mailnews_organizing.xhtml#sharing_folders_with_other_users">Sharing
Folders With Other Users (IMAP Only)</a>.</p>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_newsgroups">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="reading_newsgroup_messages">Reading Newsgroup Messages</h2>
<p>When you open your newsgroup server, you see the list of newsgroups to which
you subscribe. The server downloads the <em>headers</em> of new messages in
each newsgroup.</p>
<p>To read newsgroup messages, begin from the Mail window:</p>
<ol>
<li>Double-click a newsgroup server icon to see its newsgroups. (If there are
no newsgroups, you may need to subscribe to one.)</li>
<li>Click a newsgroup name to see its messages.</li>
<li>Click a message to read it. Click the thread button to display all the
responses below the original message. You can click any header to display
its message. You can <a href="#posting_newsgroup_messages">start a new
thread</a> or <a href="#contributing_to_ongoing_discussions">post a
message</a> in response.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_newsgroups">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="posting_newsgroup_messages">Posting Newsgroup Messages</h2>
<p>To start new threads (discussions):</p>
<ol>
<li>From the list of your subscribed newsgroups in the Mail window, select a
newsgroup.</li>
<li>Click Compose.</li>
<li><a href="mailnews_using_mail.xhtml#composing_mail_and_newsgroup_messages">Compose</a>
your message, and click Send to post it.</li>
<li>Click Get Msgs to see your posting on the newsgroup.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_newsgroups">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="contributing_to_ongoing_discussions">Contributing to Ongoing
Discussions</h2>
<p>To post a response to the newsgroup:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the message list, select a message to reply to.</li>
<li>Click Reply.</li>
<li><a href="mailnews_using_mail.xhtml#composing_mail_and_newsgroup_messages">Compose</a>
your message, and click Send to post it.</li>
</ol>
<p>To reply to an individual as well as post a response to the group:</p>
<ol>
<li>In the message list, select a message to reply to.</li>
<li>Click Reply All.</li>
<li>Compose your message, and click Send to post it.</li>
</ol>
<p>To redirect a posting to another newsgroup:</p>
<ul>
<li>Click Reply and choose <q>Followup-To</q> from the <q>Newsgroup</q>
drop-down list. Subsequent responses will be posted to the newsgroup you
enter.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_newsgroups">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="monitoring_threads">Monitoring Threads</h2>
<p>To monitor unread messages in threads that are of interest to you:</p>
<ol>
<li>Select a message in a thread.</li>
<li>Open the Message menu, and choose Watch Thread.</li>
<li>If you want to monitor additional threads, repeat steps 1 and 2 for
messages in additional threads.</li>
<li>When you're ready to monitor messages in these threads, open the
View menu, choose Messages, and then choose Watched Threads with Unread.
&brandShortName; Mail & Newsgroups only displays the watched threads
that contain unread messages.</li>
<li>Open the View menu, choose Messages, and then choose All to return to
viewing all messages in the newsgroup.</li>
</ol>
<p>To ignore a message thread:</p>
<ol>
<li>Select a message in the thread.</li>
<li>Open the Message menu, and choose Ignore Thread. &brandShortName; Mail
& Newsgroups marks all messages in the thread as read, and new replies
posted to the thread will appear as read.</li>
<li>To view ignored threads, open the View menu, choose Messages, and then
choose Ignored Threads.</li>
</ol>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_newsgroups">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="removing_a_newsgroup">Removing a Newsgroup</h2>
<p>To remove a newsgroup from your list:</p>
<ul>
<li>Select the newsgroup icon and press Delete.</li>
</ul>
<p>[<a href="#getting_started_with_newsgroups">Return to beginning of
section</a>]</p>
<h2 id="adding_a_newsgroup_server">Adding a Newsgroup Server</h2>
<p>If the newsgroup you want to subscribe to is on a different server, you must
first set up access to that server.</p>
<p>To set up an additional newsgroup server, open the File menu in the Mail
window and choose New, then Account.</p>
<ul>
<li>Using the Account Wizard, indicate that the new account you want to set
up is a newsgroup account.</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you've set up access to the new server, you can
<a href="#subscribing_to_newsgroups">subscribe</a> to newsgroups on that
server. In the Mail window, open the File menu, and choose Subscribe.</p>
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section</a>]</p>
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