Setting Up Your Newsgroup Program
GulfTel is pleased to be able to offer our dial-up and Broadband customers
free access to USENET, a worldwide community containing thousands of
discussion groups on nearly every topic.
If this is the first time you have used USENET newsgroups, you
may want to take a look at our
Introduction to USENET page.
The quickest way to get started reading and posting to newsgroups is to use
our web-based newsreader program
located at http://newsguy.com/news.htm.
Or, if you prefer, there are a number of programs will allow you to read and
post to newsgroups. Among the more popular newsreaders are
Outlook Express,
Netscape,
Free Agent, and
Opera.
(GulfTel offers customer support for Outlook Express only.)
Whichever program you choose,
you'll need the following pieces of information:
your GulfTel username
your GulfTel password
the name of the GulfTel NNTP (news) server (news.gulftel.com)
For your convenience, we have provided step-by-step directions for configuring
several newsreader programs:
Configuring Microsoft Outlook Express' Newsreader