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Announcing misc.kids.family-life
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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.497 / Virus Database: 296 - Release Date: 7/4/03 |
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Announcing misc.kids.family-life
"Anne Robotti" wrote in message ... 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 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.497 / Virus Database: 296 - Release Date: 7/4/03 |
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Announcing misc.kids.family-life
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 There is no sound, no cry in all the world that can be heard unless someone listens .. Outer Limits |
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Announcing misc.kids.family-life
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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Announcing misc.kids.family-life
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 ---------- Noreen |
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