On that screen, enter news.oit.umass.edu . Make the other choices as shown below. Click OK . Once you have selected a newsgroup, you can subscribe to individual newsgroups that you want to read frequently. You are automatically subscribed to OIT's newsgroups for announcements, but we will use them for our examples of how to subscribe.
Communicator brings up a screen which displays the names of the newsgroups available on the server.
For example, all OIT newsgroups include the word oit. Check the oit.announce and oit.announce.oitunix newsgroups regularly for announcements.