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In most situations, outlook express will automatically download newsgroup names from your news server as soon as you establish the connection to that server. But if, for whatever reason, you were unable to download newsgroup or if you want to reload newsgroup to see if there are any new ones, follow these steps to update your list of newsgroup manually: 1   1.      In the outlook express folders list, click the name of your news server and          then click newsgroup button on the outlook tool bar. The newsgroup            subscription dialog box appears. 2.        To update your list of newsgroups, click the reset button.                  It might take several minutes to download all the newsgroup names, so be        patient. When the download is complete, you should see the names of newsgroup listed in the large white area of the newsgroup subscription dialog box .

There are tens or thousands of newsgroup on the internet. the groups are divided into categories and subcategories. A single newsgroup’s name generally follows the pattern: Category.subcategory.sub-subcategory For example, the newsgroups alt.animals.dogs is a newsgroup where people who are interested in dogs can gather. Vevn more specifically, alt.animals.dogs. obedience is where people are interested in dog obedience  can gather. There are thousands of categories out there. Some of the widely used categories are listed in table: NEWSGROUP, CATEGORIES,DESCRIPTION,AND NAMES: MAIN CATEGORY                       DESCRIPTION                                                SAMPLE NESGROUP NAMES ALT                                                   Alternative lifestyle and topics                   alt.astrology.metapsyche     Alt.beer                                                                                                                                   

Like all other things computer-ish newsgroup have their own language for describing things. Here’s a quick rundown of the more common buzzwords: Each message in a newsgroup is officially called an article or a post though just about everyone refers to them as message because, in a sense, they are like a normal e-mail message, because in a sense, they are like normal e-mail message. A series of article on same subject is called thread. Many newsgroups are moderated by volunteers who weed out posted message that are irrelevant to the group or that are just plain obnoxious. Most newsgroups however are unmoderated, which means anything goes. Lurking is hanging around a group to see what’s being discussed. But unlike lurking around public parks at night which is generally not good and frowned upon by decent folk, lurking in a newsgroup is ok, particularly if you are new to the group. It gives you a chance to get a feel for the group and a better idea of what’s acceptable when

Newsgroups are really more likely to discussion groups.doing news group are more likely to doing  e-mail. In fact you can use outlook express as your news reader(a program that lets you participate in news-group). however, unlike e-mail where message gets sent to one person,the message send to newsgroup might seen by thousands of people. Anyone of those people can reply to your message,just as an individual can reply to your message you send themand those potential thousands can view their replies. Probably the best, if not the most common, use of news group is getting free answer to burning questions. For example, let’s say that you are thinking buying a new car. You have particular make and model of Toyota in mind .before making a final decisionyou’d like to know where existing owners of that car are satisfied . First you would want to find one or more newsgroups where newsgroups where people discuss Toyotas. Then you can just send an e-mail message to that newsgroup that

Start a presentation from the beginning. F5 Perform the next animation or advance to the next slide. N, ENTER, PAGE DOWN, RIGHT  ARROW, DOWN ARROW, or SPACEBAR  Perform the previous animation or return to the previous slide. P, PAGE UP, LEFT ARROW, UP ARROW, or BACKSPACE  Go to slide number. number+ENTER  Display a blank black slide, or return to the presentation from a blank black slide. B or PERIOD  Display a blank white slide, or return to the presentation from a blank white slide. W or COMMA Stop or restart an automatic presentation. S  End a presentation. ESC or HYPHEN  Erase on-screen annotations. E Go to the next slide, if the next slide is hidden. H  Set new timings while rehearsing. T Use original timings while rehearsing. O  Use mouse-click to advance while rehearsing. M Return to the first slide. 1+ENTER  Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to a pen. CTRL+P Redisplay hidden pointer and/or change the pointer to an arrow. CTRL+A  Hide

One aspect of the interconnectedness of the NET is that you can log in to other machines on the internet directly from from your own computer,no matter where you are.with TELNET you can log onto any computer  or network thousands of public sites where passwords are not required .you would not be able to work on these unix systems without telnet, which turns your windows or macnitosh computer into a remote terminal that is compatible with computers outside of the personal computer universe. Many university and public libraries make their catalog available by telnet,as do countlass other repositories of useful information. After you have started your telnet program, you need to open a internet connection and log in to the site with the steps described here: Type telnet and press enter at the unix prompt. This will put you at a telnet> prompt. then type open host site name and press enter. Logging in with telnet is the same as logging in to any computer system.

With FTP we can send files attached to e-mail ,but this is inefficient  and wastes resources if the files are large. Instead there’s FTP a method of retrieving files from and sending files to others computers on the net. Ideally, FTP will be built into windows and MAC operating systems some day (as it already is for unix) , so that managing files on the internet will be easy as managing files on your own computer. The typical FTP session starts when you run the FTP program and connect to an FTP site . depending on the program and connect to an FTP site. Depending on the program you have, you’ll eitherenter your login information before connecting or you’ll be premoted to do it after you connect. If you’re using a web browser to connect to an anonymous site, the browser.  Connecting with FTP May  prompt you to log in, though most send your e-mail address as the password automatically, these general steps illustrate a typical FTP session: 1.        Start your software o