OT How to access RCB from SBC?

Does anyone here have an sbcglobal.net address? How do you access Usenet from there? I'm switching from AOL to SBC, and I'm not planning to give up RCB....help! ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Dr. Sooz
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You can always use Google. *snicker* You should get an address from sbc to access the newsgroup. If you use Outlook Express you enter it into the same area you did for your email address. Congrats on making the switch to a real isp. :-) heehee Im sure there are others who have more detailed information. I just couldnt resist being a smarty pants. Diana

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Diana Curtis

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.compuppies (Dr. Sooz) :

]Does anyone here have an sbcglobal.net address? How do you access Usenet from ]there? I'm switching from AOL to SBC, and I'm not planning to give up ]RCB....help!

sbc has their own servers. i'm not sure what software you use to read usenet. for many ISPs, all you have to do is put in news: and it will default to their servers. or i can set you up on our servers - it's free and generally catches more. we also keep RCB posts for a month or more, so they don't 'roll out' as fast.

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vj

When you switch, email me and I will walk you though setting up Outlook Express to read the group, if you like. :D It's easy, but way different than accessing through AOL. No more AOHELL - Yey!!!

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Kandice Seeber

Oh dear! Out of the safe, circumscribed world of AOL? It will be an adjustment. (Been there. Done that. A couple of times...)

Does SBC have their own "approved" email client? If not (or even if they do), get something like Netscape (7.0 or 7.1 -- 7.2 sucks rocks) which not only has a browser but also an email client which will give you access to the newsgroups. (I also has a free-standing Address Book.)

The biggest advantage that Netscape has over Outlook or Outlook Express is that it's not a Microsoft product and is, therefor, less frequently a target for phishers and other scoundrels. Netscape is free at http//:

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:o) Avoid Eudora at all costs. (Been there and done that, too. What a pain!) The newsgroup server should be called "news.sbcglobal.net." Which newsgroups you can get to will be dependant on which newsgroups SBC subscribes to. RCB should not be a problem. Subscribing to the newsgroups is handled through your email client, not SBC.

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Arondelle

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Arondelle

Sooz,

I always have the dangest time trying to find the settings. It is almost like they are top-secret. It just took me 15 minutes to get this, so hold on to it! ;) :

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Marisa2

Dr. Sooz wrote:

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Marisa2

You just need to setup the news account in your mail client software (ie. outlook express or netscape or whatever). The newsserver information should have been in your info packet from SBC. Then go to the Help menu for your mail client and lookup 'setting up newsgroups'. Otherwise, get the info and send me your phone number and I'll walk you through it.

Barb

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Barbara Forbes-Lyons

I'm keeping AOL, because I never have had problems with it, and I like some of the content areas, but I also wanted back up, so I downloaded "agent" and got it configured with the help of vj and others...

But I gotta tell ya....the times I did use it instead of AOL...it was a PAIN. But, that's just me.

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

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LC aka Fiddy

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