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