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News with Outlook Express 5 [ Internet Explorer ]
Starting Up  |  Subscribing and Unsubscribing  |  Reading Messages  |  SENDING MESSAGES

To post (send) a message to a newsgroup
  1. Select the desired newsgroup from the Sympatico.ca folder.
  2. Click the New Post button () (New with Macintosh) on the Outlook Express news toolbar.
  3. In the New Message window, enter a subject for your message in the Subject: box. This is what others will see in the message list pane when they open this newsgroup.
  4. Press the Tab key on your keyboard, or click with your mouse in the body of the New Message window, then compose your message.
  5. To send your message immediately, click the Post button on the New Message toolbar (Post Now on Macintosh).

To delay sending your message until the next time you send and receive messages, click File, then click Send Later (On Macintosh, click the Post Later button). If you only want to save your message, click File, then click Save (on Macintosh Outlook Express 4, click Save as Draft). It will be saved to the Drafts folder showing in the pane at left.


The Drafts folder for Windows


The Drafts folder for Macintosh

NOTE: Your e-mail address is automatically attached to any message you post to a newsgroup.


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