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Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:18:30 PST8
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: No News is ProNews ?

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What version of ProNews/2 are you trying to use? You need pn2v153.zip
from Hobbes.

J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> Tom Brown wrote:
>
>>Click ProNews/2 > Settings then fill in the Server Hostname and click
>>Add. From the main screen, you then need to click on the Server name in
>>the right hand column and the All Groups tab to get a list of the news
>>groups on that server. Then you select the groups that you want to
>>subscribe to. Ctrl-left click to select groups, right click and
>>"manually subscribe". Back to the Subscriptions tab and double-click on
>>a group to display the headers of the messages in the group.
>
>
> Thanks for your reply, Tom, but still No Joy. I did exactly what you said, this time
> getting the Server Hostname onboard, and the following still occurs: it says "Online",
> but shows zero connections; there is a 'News' item in the right hand column, but not a
> mention of the particular News Server; NO list of available groups ever gets
> downloaded (it shows 'Queued' *forever*, no matter what I do); whatever I enter into
> Settings, by way of the Server config. page will NOT be there by the next time I look
> in the Config Notebook. I don't know if the install was somehow a dud, or if there is
> any way to test the proposition, one way or the other.
>
>
>>Experiment a bit! ProNews/2 beats the heck out of Netscape and Mozilla
>>for reading newsgroups.
>
>
> At this point, I wouldn't know. NS 4.61 just works for this, with no fiddling
> whatsoever, and I haven't checked out Newsgroups within Mozilla yet.
>
>
> Jordan
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Tom Brown
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