It is very exciting to be able to communicate back and forth over long distances with friends and acquaintances in a private forum. Unlike e-mail these messages are not private, anyone in the world accessing that group can read them.
Some discussions can stretch on for days, weeks, even months.
This section of the Comnet Communications support pages is designed to help you get your programs configured to reap the benefits of E-Mail and Usenet. They are all configured in pretty much the same way, you just have to enter specific information where requested in each program's setup. These documents offer support for the most popular programs. There are several newsreader programs you could choose to use to view and post to newsgroups. They are all configured in pretty much the same way, you just have to enter specific information where requested in each program's setup.