SatForms Power Tip: Setting up a newsgroup for SF-Talk

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The Problem

The best source for Satellite Forms information is SF Talk, but for unknown reasons, the forum has lost the ability to reply to email, making it necessary to go to the web site, sign in, and access the messages.

The Solution

In Outlook Express, go to Tools | Accounts.  Click on Add | News. 

 

If you have Outlook, go to View | Go To | News | Set up a newsgroup account.  Outlook Express will open automatically.

 

Enter your name, then your email address, then the news (nntp) server, www.pdadeveloper.com and check the "server requires me to log on" option.

 

On the next screen enter your username and password that you have already set up for SF-Talk.  Do NOT enable "SPA secure logon".  Click next, finish, and you're all set.  Then, download the newsgroups list should have about a dozen groups, and subscribe to the ones you want.

 

You can still receive SF-Talk via email, but now you can reply via the newsgroup.

 

(Thanks to David Thacker.)

 

 

Jon Blackman, MD, MS

www.pocketinformatics.com

 

Revised 05/18/2003