Reading UC Davis Newsgroups from Home * With Explorer, go to this address: http://email.ucdavis.edu/newsgroups/reading.html * Click on: "Log into the Kerberos server" * enter your *UC Davis* user name and password * The rest of the instructions are for Outlook Express. (But! The steps for other news-reading programs should be similar. ) * next: open Outlook Express * Choose: "Set up a Newsgroups account" * Enter the requested info: * your name * your e-mail address: * the news server: news.ucdavis.edu * don't check the "requires log on" box * The names of all 25000 newsgroups will be down-loaded to your computer. * Search for this group: ucd.class.ecs30a * Subscribe * Also search for this group: ucd.class.ecs30a.d * Subscribe * Click on OK * Click on the newsgroup name to see the messages posted there now. * Click on a Message Subject to see the message. * Use the Message Menu at the top of Outlook Express to reply or to post new messages. * When you want to read these newsgroups in the future, you will still have to log in using the procedure at the start of this document. * * * * *