Typically, you'll want to send messages immediately if you're connected to the network. However, to reduce connection time, you can compose messages offline and defer sending mail until the next time you're connected. The News window operates similarly to the Mail window. If you skipped the previous pages on exchanging and composing mail, you might want to go back and read these now. Like mail, you create your news messages in the Message Composition window.
People post messages to newsgroups.
Click on an item in the newsgroup box to display a listing of messages in the message header box. Click on an item in the message header field to display each message in the message box. When you open the News window, the set of newsgroups you have specified in the Options menu is displayed in the newsgroup box. All Newsgroups menu item to see the broadest selection of available groups. However, the number of newsgroups is so large that you might prefer to limit your newsgroup box to subscribed newsgroups.