• Highlight a Newsgroup in the folders pane of your Inbox.

• Click on 'Edit' in the Netscape menu and choose 'Newsgroup Properties' (Windows only, in Mac version select 'Edit' » 'Get Info').

Use the items on the 'General' panel of the 'Newsgroup Properties' dialog box to: View status information about the selected Newsgroup, such as total number of messages and unread messages. Specify whether the Newsgroup accepts HTML messages.

To immediately download messages:
Click the 'Download' ('Download Now' in Mac version).

Note. If you uncheck the HTML messages, you will not be able to post HTML messages to the selected Newsgroup or to any groups that contain it. For example, if you uncheck HTML messages for the Newsgroup mcom.jellybeans, you cannot post HTML messages to mcom.jellybeans.lime.

Messenger automatically converts any HTML messages you post to groups that do not accept HTML to plain text.

Set options for downloading messages on a specific Newsgroup

• Select the Newsgroup and then open the 'Newsgroup Properties' dialogue box.

• Click the 'Download Settings' tab.

• Tick the check box to select this Newsgroup for downloading when you switch to offline mode.

• Untick the check box at "Use default settings from preferences" if you want to ignore them for this specific Newsgroup.

You can specify which messages to download from the selected group (either unread messages or those with dates within a certain range of days). Click 'Download Now' to immediately download messages using these settings. Messenger uses default settings in the 'Newsgroup Servers' panel of the 'Mail & Newsgroups' section in the Preferences dialogue box.

How to view or change Newsgroup Properties in Netscape 6

• Highlight a Newsgroup in the folders pane of your Folders List.

• Click 'Edit' from the pull-down menus and choose 'Mail/News Account Settings'.

From here you can whether or not to use HTML for your messages, how your name and e-mail address will appear and select a file to use as your signature.

On the 'Server' tab you can choose how many messages to download and before it asks you and how often to check for new messages.

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