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Old July 12th 03, 01:17 PM
just me
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Some of you may recall the RFD's and eventual pair of CFV's regarding the
creation of the lightly moderated misc.kids.family-life. The vote to create
the group in the Big 8 did not pass. The creation team that worked to
develop the group set up a list, however, where the group can be read either
via an email like list or just like a news group. This group is being used
to develop, refine and assess the Charter as it was proposed in order to
determine how workable such a group would be and whether or not a future
revisitation of the RFD would have a reasonable chance of success. The
group is not available on most servers or Google, only on the news.gweep.ca
server.

The Creation Team is inviting anyone interested in participating in this
experiment to subscribe and join in as you find the time and interest.
There are already active participants discussing various topics mainly
centered around family life.

If you are interested in subscribing you will need to subscribe to the
news.gweep.ca server, download the groups which it carries, and subscribe in
your usual method of subscription to a news group. The first two posts by
any given poster are hand moderated for topicality, as per the Charter
presented in the CFV in April and June. Posters complying with the Charter
are moved to green-lighted or direct posting status after two posts
compliant with the Charter.

Thank you.

-Aula, proponent, creation team member and moderator




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Old July 12th 03, 01:53 PM
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"Anne Robotti" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:33:00 GMT, "just me"
wrote:


If you are interested in subscribing you will need to subscribe to the
news.gweep.ca server, download the groups which it carries, and subscribe

in
your usual method of subscription to a news group.


How do you do this? (subscribe to the news.gweep.ca server)



I can give you instructions for Outlook Express. You are using forte agent
so I have sent for the experts on that one. I suspect you will have a
helpful response somewhat later this [eastern US] morning. Thank you for
your interest.

-Aula


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Old July 12th 03, 03:40 PM
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 08:18:25 EDT, Anne Robotti
wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:33:00 GMT, "just me"
wrote:


If you are interested in subscribing you will need to subscribe to the
news.gweep.ca server, download the groups which it carries, and subscribe in
your usual method of subscription to a news group.


How do you do this? (subscribe to the news.gweep.ca server)

Anne


Hi, Anne.

I don't know how expert you are with agent, but these are the
steps I used

In order to subscribe to a different server with agent, you need
another copy of agent that can run on your system at the same
time (if you want to use both copies together and since the
private server does not carry all the ngs, this is probably a good
idea).

First, find your agent.exe file.

Second, make a copy of it to a folder other than the program
files and remember where you put it. You can do this with
your windows copy program. Don't do a send to, as that only
creates a shortcut.

Third, have your key for agent handy so you can enter it
into the new setup. Click on the new agent and it will take
you to the setup wizard. Enter your key when it prompts
for this.

Fourth, go to options, user and system profile.
In the user part, change anything you want to change for
the new server. Uncheck, server requires login. Change
the title bar to agent1 or anything different from agent.
On the system bar, enter news.gweep.ca as your newsserver.

Fifth, unsubscribe from all the newsgroups that it copied
from your normal server.

Sixth, go to online and refresh group list, check delete all
extinct groups and let it run. This will take a minute or two.
You should have 156 groups approximately when it finishes.

Seventh, find misc.kids.family-life and subscribe. You can,
of course, subscribe to any other groups carried, but not
all of your regular groups will be there.

Eighth, create a shortcut to your new agent file if you wish.

You are now ready to post to mkf-l. Remember though that
your first post at least will be hand moderated so it will take
some time to appear. You may want to realize also that the
robo-moderator will send you warnings if you leave in too much
of the quoted text and don't add enough new text when you post
(I am used to leaving in all of other people's words, so I ran
afoul of this before I got the hang of how much to snip and how
much to leave in).

Hope to see you there. And anyone else who wants to use
agent there.

From what someone else said, there are instructions on forte's

website about doing this, but I haven't read them - this is my
own method, figured out with the help of some geek friends.
If you can't do it my way, try on forte's site and see if their
instructions are clearer.





--
Dorothy

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that can be heard unless someone listens ..
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Old July 12th 03, 07:19 PM
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Another option is to use Outlook Express (OE) or a different newsreader for
MKFL, and agent for the newsgroups carried by your main server. It is
probably worthwhile to try this. You may like OE or another newsreader
better.

Jeff


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Old July 12th 03, 07:20 PM
Noreen Cooper
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Anne Robotti wrote:

:If you are interested in subscribing you will need to subscribe to the
:news.gweep.ca server, download the groups which it carries, and subscribe in
:your usual method of subscription to a news group.

: How do you do this? (subscribe to the news.gweep.ca server)

Hi Anne and others:

Below are instructions on how to subscribe to misc.kids.family-life with
various configurations so that it is the same as reading a Usenet
newsgroup: Outlook Express, Agent, slrn, Netscape 7.0 and later, and
Knode:

***Detailed instructions on how to set up a Usenet type account through
Microsoft Outlook Express:

1. Go to Tools | Accounts.
2. Click the Add button and select News.
3. Work your way through the Internet Account Wizard.
The only special thing you need to know to connect to
the server is its address, which is news.gweep.ca.
Enter this at the News (NNTP) Server prompt.
4. Click Finish.
5. Back at the Internet Accounts dialog, click Close.
6. Once you return to Outlook Express, click the
server labeled news.gweep.ca. Click the Newsgroups,
scroll through the list until you find
misc.kids.family-life, and click the Subscribe button.

***Detailed instructions on how to set up a Usenet type account via Agent:

To set up agent you must have two copies of agent that can be
open at the same time.

First, copy agent.exe to a separate folder. This will copy all
of your current usenet settings.

When you open it, you will get the setup wizard. You must
have your key to enter into the proper location when that screen
comes up.

Once the program is setup, open it and go to options,
user and system profile

On the user tab, enter your email if it will be different for
this group than your usual usenet addy.

Check no login is required

On the system tab, enter news.gweep.ca in place of your
old news server.

On the title bar enter a different name like agent1 instead
of agent.

Next refresh groups deleting all extinct groups.

Then subscribe to mkf-l and you are all set.


***Detailed instructions on how to read mkfl with slrn:

For slrn, add this line to your .slrnrc:

server news.gweep.ca .jnewsrc-gweep

(or, choose another name for your gweep newsrc - just make sure to put
something in there different from your default newsrc, or else you'll
have
trouble with overwriting it!)

Then run slrn from the command line as:

prompt slrn -h news.gweep.ca

and subscribe to misc.kids.family-life per normal procedure

***Detailed instructions on how to set up a Usenet type account with
Netscape 7.0 and later:

Go to your mail account

Next go to edit and mail and news account settings

click on add account

check newsgroup account

put in your name and email address

click next

put in news.gweep.ca as your server.

Then go to that account and subscribe to newsgroups
It will dl all the ngs and then you can subscribe to mkfl

***Detailed instructions on how to set up a Usenet account with Knode:


To configure Knode, you need to set up a new account and subscribe with
that.

Goto settings--configure Knode
Select Accounts--News

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Noreen

 




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