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How to connect
to Usenet
Software Requirements
Now this is the easiest
part of all. To connect to the Usenet, you only need a Usenet client.
Most browsers already have such a client built in. Outlook Express
(part of Microsoft's IE) is for e-mail, but also for Usenet. Same
is valid for Netscape's (or Mozilla's) Messenger. Even
Opera has not only an e-mail, but also a news client (as
Usenet clients are called more often). You see, in most cases you
already have such a client installed. Other OSes like Linux (for
example) will already have more than one client installed after
a default installation (e.g. a command line client, a XServer client,
a KDE and a GNOME client).
Windows clients, like
the ones that ship with browsers, are good for beginners, but you
will soon recognize that they lack a lot of features, are inflexible,
slow and don't satisfy your needs any longer. For that case, We
have made a little list of clients you may want to try in the related
links section of this site.
Service Requirements
To receive messages
from Usenet, you have to connect to a Usenet server with your client.
Therefore you'll need an Internet connection and you'll need a server
that allows you to connect.
You might be able
to find a free server, that allows everyone to connect. Such servers
became extremely rare and often suffer by many problems. This is
because the bandwidth costs are very high and people on Usenet don't
behave in such a way that these services have a good chance to survive
very long. Also spammers often abuse these services what cause them
to be shut off the net and thus these services often don't live
very long. Often you have to combine serveral free servers to a
single server (some tools allow you to do that), as many good servers
are read-only, so you can retrieve articles from them, but you need
another server to post.
Better than free servers
are commercial servers. While you have to pay to use our service,
we don't suffer by any problems like the free servers.
To learn how to configure
outlook express or to find a newsreader
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