Usenet Newsgroups allow you to read and post to popular Internet newsgroups. GRU.net is able to offer newsgroups to our customers through services provided by Randori News Inc.
To set-up Newsgroups after subscribing to one of our service plans please do the following:
Outlook Express 5 and 6:
- Click on Tools and then Accounts
- Click on Add News
- Enter your Display Name (your Display Name can be any name you want)
- Click Next and enter your e-mail address (e.g. johndoe@gru.net)
- Click Next and enter the name of the News Server which is news.gru.net
- Click Next and then Finish
- In your mailbox's folder list news.gru.net should be listed.
- Click on news.gru.net and a list of newsgroups will appear.
- Click on each one that interests you and subscribe.
Netscape 7:
- In your browser window click on Mail
- In the toolbar of the Netscape Mailbox click on Edit
- Click on Mail and Newsgroup Account settings
- Click on Add Account
- Click on Newsgroup Account
- Where indicated enter your name and e-mail address and click Next