This does not send out the e-mail, but puts it into your Outbox folder. For these features and others, please read through the help information that is found under the 'Help' pull-down menu. Using Outlook Express For Usenet News Usenet news is a made up of a large set of discussion groups. Although the number of groups varies in time, as new groups are added and old ones removed, the total number is well in the range of 35,000. Each group is called a newsgroup.
Discussions take the form of articles and responses to articles.
On any given day, a particular newsgroup might have zero to a couple thousand of articles posted to it. The following description is intended to provide an overview of the news reading process, breaking it down into a few simple steps and looking at the means to perform those steps using Outlook Express. You will want to connect to the Internet before going further on with this document. Periodically unsubscribe to a group or add another group to your subscribed list. As the total number of newsgroups is so large and the volume of articles so heavy, you will need to restrict the number of newsgroups you actively follow.