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How to connect to Usenet
Software Requirements
Now this is the easiest part of all. To connect to the Usenet, you only need a Usenet client. Most browsers already have such a client built in. Outlook Express (part of Microsoft's IE) is for e-mail, but also for Usenet. Same is valid for Netscape's (or Mozilla's) Messenger. Even Opera has not only an e-mail, but also a news client (as Usenet clients are called more often). You see, in most cases you already have such a client installed. Other OSes like Linux (for example) will already have more than one client installed after a default installation (e.g. a command line client, a XServer client, a KDE and a GNOME client).
Windows clients, like the ones that ship with browsers, are good for beginners, but you will soon recognize that they lack a lot of features, are inflexible, slow and don't satisfy your needs any longer. For that case, We have made a little list of clients you may want to try in the related links section of this site.
Service Requirements
To receive messages from Usenet, you have to connect to a Usenet server with your client. Therefore you'll need an Internet connection and you'll need a server that allows you to connect.
You might be able to find a free server, that allows everyone to connect. Such servers became extremely rare and often suffer by many problems. This is because the bandwidth costs are very high and people on Usenet don't behave in such a way that these services have a good chance to survive very long. Also spammers often abuse these services what cause them to be shut off the net and thus these services often don't live very long. Often you have to combine serveral free servers to a single server (some tools allow you to do that), as many good servers are read-only, so you can retrieve articles from them, but you need another server to post.
Better than free servers are commercial servers. While you have to pay to use our service, we don't suffer by any problems like the free servers.
To learn how to configure outlook express or to find a newsreader
click here
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