| Track down
interesting newsgroups by using the handy news search facility in Outlook
Express. Click the Newsgroups icon on the toolbar and a dialog box appears with
the prompt 'Display newsgroups which contain;. Enter your subject of choice -
for example, 'movies' - and Outlook Express gives you a list of every newsgroup
with the word 'movies' in its title. Select the newsgroups you'd like to
explore by highlighting them and clicking the Subscribe button.
The newsgroups you've
subscribe to appear in the left-hand column of Outlook Express, underneath your
email boxes. To read the messages in a particular group, click on it and all
that group's messages will be displayed, in the same way that email your inbox
is shown. Easy.
Searching with Dejanews
Dejanews on the Web (http://www.dejanews.com/)
can help you find anything from the 'I hate Barney' and the Titanic fan groups,
to the latest debates surrounding genetically modified foodstuffs.
It has a massive database of
all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, which you can easily search from the
Dejanews website. So, if you're interested in Albanian fold poetry, simply
whack your query in the search box and at the hit of a button, you'll get back
a list of all the posts that mention your chosen topic.
You can read these posts
direct on the Dejanews site, and see where they came from. If you want to check
out the group, highlight the group's name, copy it (CTRL+C) and then past it
(CTRL+V) into your Outlook Express newsreader (in the dialog box which appears
after clicking the Newsgroups button). |
