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According to <c.buttimer at mdx.ac.uk>:

>I'd be very grateful if you would  tell me how to use Usenet. Many thanks.
>
>Colin.

Hi Colin,

Get a hold of a copy of Thoth.   http://www.thothsw.com/

Then go to http://www.giganews.com  and get a three-day free trial of 
their news server subscription. There are no 'strings' or 'catches', 
it's an honest 3-day, or One Gigabyte trial.

The reason to try a 'premium' news server, instead of your ISP's 
'feed' is simple: Access to many more groups, longer retention of 
posted articles [text, audio, video, etc] on the servers, etc] After 
the 3-day trial, you can sign up gor giganews [that was my choice] or 
go to http://www.easynews.com  and grab their $10 a month plan [but 
it is 500MB per day, as opposed to my 18 GB a month plan at giganews]

There is a learning curve, which I can seriously 'flatten out' for 
you, or anybody. But basically, you launch the app, and follow the 
onscreen instructions to set up.

1- First, you'll input the location URL of the news server, and your 
password. [password is temporary with the free trials]

2- Next, Thoth gets you to set up a folder for its info/etc,  you can 
call it newsgroups [or whatever] in "Documents",

3- Then it'll ask you to create your own group lists. Here, you can 
go along and create a list called mp3, or music [again, whatever].

4- Then it automatically downloads the entire list of news groups 
available through your carrier. here is the critical thing. It takes 
a few minutes sometimes for the entire list to download.

5- There's a Search 'blank' near the top of the Full group List, type 
in sounds.mp3 and you'll see a much shorter list of the mp3 groups.

6- Command-Click the groups you want to take a look at, and then 
click-drag them to the little window that thoth opened for you 
onscreen when you set up the "mp3' group [#3 above]

Let me know, offlist, if you get this far. Setting Thoth's prefs can 
be tricky for a first-time user, but the process is easy with tips. 
It's an incredible program. The best on the macintosh platform, and 
faster and more full-featured than Forte Agent, on the Wintel 
platform. [although Forte Agent is a killer on the Wintel side, no 
question].

Hope this helps. trust me, once you get set up, you'll be amazed.

~flipper