To read the articles of a newsgroups you must know of a news server that carries the newsgroup. To submit articles to the newsgroup, you must be given permission to submit to the news server. At the start of the fall semester of 1995, NIU does not have a news server. Netscape displays the list of articles on a page with buttons to select articles, select topic threads, post articles, list newsgroups, and unsubscribe newsgroups. Subscribing in the context of newsgroups refers to tracking the articles that you have read within a newsgroup.
Nothing is sent to a news server as part of a subscription.
Posting an article uses your electronic mailer to submit a message to the news server. These documents are stored on a server and retrieved on your request by Netscape. When you save a document to your own drive using Print , the document is saved in its raw HTML form. You can display the document by pointing to the file on your drive from within Netscape. This is also the way to view HTML documents that you have created.