Newsgroups: About newsgroups at HREF Tools Corp.

Friday Sep. 18, 2009 Santa Rosa, California

Newsgroups are in the news here!

We are using newsgroups to provide technical support for these products: WebHub, Rubicon and IIS Backup.

To participate, you will need

• a newsgroup reader such as
  • Thunderbird
    Primarily an email client; supports the use of a proxy
  • XanaNews
    Written in Delphi, full Delphi 2006 source available, zero proxy support as of 08-Aug-2009, otherwise quite friendly to use
• the address of our newsgroup server: news.href.com
• a username and password: below

XanaNews - Authenticate Setting

If you are using XanaNews, go into Account Properties > Server Settings and make sure that the checkbox for Always Authenticate is turned ON as shown in the screenshot here.

If you have trouble reading messages, go into Account Properties > Dialup & Connection and turn off XOVER and possibly turn off pipelining. The number of connections is probably not important, you can keep the default value.

Exit and restart XanaNews between major changes to the connection settings because you can get different results, using the same settings, after a restart of XanaNews.

There are many alternatives to XanaNews, including Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, and probably a dozen more on your favorite shareware download site.

Thanks to Peter Hyde for the XOVER, etc. advice.