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Thanks very much indeed for this, Lizzy.
I did have a quick look to see the first steps, but I honestly haven't had time to do the whole operation. Your steps are written so clearly, that I am hopeful I (even I!) will be able to complete the process successfully. If I do make it work, I'll let you know by posting a message through the system! I won't cancel my Giganews subscription until I do g Pat on the green .. On 14/04/2015 02:13, Lizzy Taylor wrote: In my current version of Thunderbird: From the menu bar select Tools-Account Settings At the bottom left of the Account Settings window click on the button marked "Account Actions" and select "Add Other Account". The New Account Setup window should automatically have "Newsgroup cccount" as the selected option. Click Next Fill in your screen name in the "Your Name" box and your email address in the "Email Address" box Click Next In the Newsgroup Server box type news.aioe.org Click Next If everything looks correct click Finish, then click OK in the Account Settings window. news.aioe.org should now appear in bold in the left hand side of your main Thunderbird window Right click on that bold news.aioe.org and select Subscribe... Wait a few moments for the list of newsgroups to appear in the list Type quilting in the box marked "Show items that contain:" and rec.craft.textiles.quilting will appear in the box below. Click in the little square by rctq so that it is ticked and then click OK. rctq should now appear under the bold news.aioe.org click on rctq and the new messages should appear in your message list (just like your emails do). Read & enjoy. Hope that helps Lizzy |
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On 14/04/2015 18:46, Dreamweaver wrote:
On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 3:09:38 PM UTC-5, Lizzy Taylor wrote: Dreamweaver OK, what program do you use for your email? I use Thunderbird, so that is the one I can help with most easily, but I'll have a shot at helping you if you use something else. Lizzy For email I use Outlook.com. I also use Chrome on Windows 7. Thanks for the help, Dreamweaver Hi Dreamweaver, I have looked into using outlook.com for reading newsgroups and it doesn't look like there is a good, simple, solution. Your best bet may well be to download Thunderbird https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ and then follow the instructions I put together for Pat. You can then use Thunderbird for reading rctq and other newsgroups as you like and still use outlook.com for email. Sorry not to be more help, Lizzy |
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On 4/16/2015 8:53 PM, Lizzy Taylor wrote:
On 14/04/2015 18:46, Dreamweaver wrote: On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 3:09:38 PM UTC-5, Lizzy Taylor wrote: Dreamweaver OK, what program do you use for your email? I use Thunderbird, so that is the one I can help with most easily, but I'll have a shot at helping you if you use something else. Lizzy For email I use Outlook.com. I also use Chrome on Windows 7. Thanks for the help, Dreamweaver Hi Dreamweaver, I have looked into using outlook.com for reading newsgroups and it doesn't look like there is a good, simple, solution. Your best bet may well be to download Thunderbird https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ and then follow the instructions I put together for Pat. You can then use Thunderbird for reading rctq and other newsgroups as you like and still use outlook.com for email. Sorry not to be more help, Lizzy I use thunderbird for RCTQ, as well as for all my mail. You can set it up for multiple accounts. DH & I both have e-mail accounts with our ISP and I have a gmail account. I have my yahoo mail (I'm on a couple yahoo groups) forwarded to gmail so that also shows up in thunderbird. I wasn't able to get thunderbird to work directly with yahoo. Nice to have everything in one place. Julia in MN |
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I use Albasani.net through the Windows Mail app that comes installed on
Windows based computers. I used to do email there, too, but don't now. Only the newsgroup. Kate in MI "Dreamweaver" wrote in message ... I hate Google and want to come back. Can anyone suggest a ng reader that's free and easier to read than Google? |
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