# Reading Newsgroups

You can use Mosaic to read Usenet newsgroups if you subscribe to a news server. To post articles to newsgroups, you'll need a full-featured news program.

To configure Mosaic to access newsgroups:

1. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.

2. In the News Server field, enter the domain name of the news server to which you subscribe.

3. Choose the OK button.

To read newsgroups:

- To list the available newsgroups, type news:* in the URL field. An alphabetical list of newsgroups with brief descriptions is displayed. Click on a newsgroup name to list the articles in that newsgroup.

- To access a particular newsgroup, enter a news URL of the form news:group. For example news:news.announce.newusers.

  Note - Unlike other URLs, news URLs do not include slashes (//) after the colon.

- When you first access a newsgroup, the subject lines of the first 20 articles are listed. Click a subject line to display the full article. If an article is related to other messages, links to the related articles are provided.

- To specify the range of articles to list, type the URL of the newsgroup, followed by a slash and the range of articles. For example: news:news.answers/38179-38198

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