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News Groups are essentially large text-based discussions on various topics. Each news group has a name and topic. For example alt.tv.this-old-house is the name of a news group in which people discuss the TV show This Old House.
News groups (originally called USENET) are organized into categories including:
The discussions take place via e-mail type messages. A news group server computer collects and displays the news group messages. All messages are organized by their names. Participants connect to the news group server and read the messages for each topic ("postings"). They may respond to a message on a current topic ("thread") or create a new entry.
Newsgroup messages are stored on news group server computers throughout the Internet. ISP's will often have their own news group server computer which collects and stores news group messages. The ISP's customers can then access this newsgroups server to read/post messages. The key here is that only one copy of each message is stored on each newsgroup server. One news group server can be used by many users.
Users do not have to subscribe to the newsgroup in order to read or post messages. Users can see all newsgroups and messages. They do, however, need to have access to the newsgroup server. If your ISP does not provide this service, you can use one of the free news groups servers available on the Internet via the world wide web.
Both Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator have news reader programs built into their browsers. If your ISP has a news group server you can use these reader programs to read/post newsgroup messages.
Mailing lists (often called list Serves) are another tool for e-mail based discussions. There are mailing lists for many discussion topics. Each mailing list has a topic name, a host computer, and a list of e-mail addresses for all participants of the list.
Participants must subscribe to each mailing list in which they want to participate. To subscribe they must often send an e-mail to the mailing list with a request to be added to the list. Some mailing lists will also allow users to subscribe via a web page instead of e-mail.
Once the user has subscribed to the list, a copy of all messages sent to the list will be forwarded to their e-mail address. Mailing list generate thousands of e-mail messages.
It is important to remember that there are generally two address in which you must remember.
1) subscription address
The address in which you must send a message to subscribe ("sign up") for the list and the unsubscribe from the list2) message address
The address where you send messages which will be distributed to everyone that belongs to the list.
Be sure to send your subscription messages to the subscription address and NOT to the message address.
There are many types of mailing lists/list serves.
| List Type | How to subscribe |
| LISTSERV | subscribe listname yourfirstname yourlastname |
| LISTPROC | subscribe listname yourfirstname yourlastname |
| MAILBASE | join listname yourfirstname yourlastname |
| MAJORDOMO | subscribe listname |
The subscribe command should be placed in the body of the message. You should leave the subject line blank turn off your signatures.
Some mailing lists are private, thus you may not be able to access them. Some mailing lists are no longer active. Some mailing lists are moderated, meaning someone monitors all submissions.
In order to read e-mail, you must have an e-mail program. At Huntington College, Microsoft Outlook is the standard e-mail program. There are many other mail programs such as Pegasus, Eudora, Elm, Pine, Microsoft Explorer Mail, and Netscape Mail. A list of Yahoo E-Mail Resources contains links to many companies providing e-mail software.
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMPT ) and Post Office Protocol ( POP ) are the standard protocols used for Internet E-mail messages.
Most web browsers have an e-mail program built-in. You can use Netscape or Explorer as an E-mail reader as long as you set the following options for the SMPT and POP3 addresses.
| Option | Values |
| Outgoing Mail Server ( SMPT ) | mail.huntington.edu |
| Incoming Mail Server ( POP3 ) | mail.huntington.edu |
| POP3 User name | s123456 |
Your Huntington College e-mail is available through a web interface at forest.huntington.edu/exchange
Thus you can access your HC e-mail from any web browser on/off campus.
Common E-Mail features
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