If, however, you need to manually configure the settings in either Outlook Express 4.5 or 5.0 then the information contained below will outline this. Enter your e-Mail address. Your password will show as a line of dots for security reasons. Newsgroups are organised into subject hierarchies, with the first few letters of the newsgroup name indicating the major subject category and sub-categories represented by a subtopic name. Many subjects have multiple levels of subtopics.
Users can post to existing newsgroups and respond to previous posts.
You will be asked if you want to download the newsgroups from the server. There should be approxiamately 5000. Choose the groups that intrest you, by highlighting and selecting subscribe. Enter the name of the account. This is for defining the account locally.