News Groups

Digital Mars news groups are for support, discussion, etc., for anything related to Digital Mars products. If you are familiar with newsreaders, the newsgroup can be found at: news.digitalmars.com.

For those unfamiliar with newsreaders:

Netscape Messenger:

Start Netscape Messenger.
Go to menu: Edit->Preferences.
Expand Mail & Newsgroups in the Category tree.
Select Newsgroup Servers
Click Add... (at the right)
Type the name of the server: news.digitalmars.com
Click OK
Close Preferences, i.e. click OK. news.digitalmars.com should appear at the bottom in the tree with the inbox.
Click on news.digitalmars.com with the right mouse button
Choose Subscribe to newsgroups...
This will display Communicator: Subscribe to Newsgroups.
Click Subscribe
Close Communicator: Subscibe to Newsgroups, i.e. click OK
Now the newsgroups subscribed to should appear underneath news.digitalmars.com

Microsoft Outlook Express:

Start Outlook Express
Go to menu: Tools->Accounts...
This will display Internet Accounts
Click the News tab.
Click the Add button
Select News
Choose a Display Name
Click Next
Choose an E-mail Address
Click Next
Type the name of the News (NNTP) server: news.digitalmars.com.
Click Finish
Close Internet Accounts, i.e. click Close
Choose Yes to the question Would you like to download newsgroups from the news account you added?
Click c++
Click Subscribe
Close Newsgroup Subscriptions, i.e. click OK
Now the Folders tree news.digitalmars.com should appear underneath c++

Note: All posters to the Digital Mars newsgroups or mailing list agree to release all claims to intellectual property rights in any posted or emailed feedback to Digital Mars.

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Note: All posters to the Digital Mars newsgroups or mailing list agree to release all claims to intellectual property rights in any posted or emailed feedback to Digital Mars.