Free Agent will connect to the mail server and download all news groups. This can take several minutes. When all groups are downloaded they will appear in the upper-left section. Find the group that you want to read from and double click. Choose either 50 Samples, All Headers, or just Subscribe to the group.
Headers appear in the upper-right section.
Double click on any of the Headers and the news message appears in the lower main section. To Post a new news message to that group, click the menu item Post then New Usenet Message. Fill in the message then click Send Now.