Newsgroups

Grabit is a free news reader available from www.shemes.com.It's great for downloading binaries.

1) Open Grabit and right click the My Grabit icon and select Add Server.

2) You should now be presented with the window shown below.

Enter the following information:

Profile name: Type in the name you wish to give this account e.g. "Claranews".

The following is a guide to setting up Newsbin Pro 5 for a Claranet news account. This guide is focused on when running the program for the first time after installation. Newsbin is program that allows you to download content from binary Newsgroups.

1) Open Newsbin Pro, it should run the setup wizard. Click on Next to proceed.

2) The next window will prompt you to enter in the following:

Server address: news.clara.net.

The following is a guide for setting up a text based newsgroupaccount in Outlook express 6 on Windows XP.

1) Open Outlook express.

Click on the Tools menu at the top, then click on Accounts.