"Cherokee via AviationKB.com" u30624@uwe wrote in message
news:6bcf152d11407@uwe...
Jose, how do I go about setting up thru a newsreader, to post and recieve.
I
would appreciate any help

I'm not Jose, but I'll tell you that it depends on your ISP. You may or may
not have access to Usenet via a news server (a server that supports NNTP,
the protocol used to get Usenet data).

Generally speaking, whatever news reader you use will have a way to add a
news server account. Your ISP will have to tell you the name of your news
server, and the user ID and password (if required...it usually is) for the
server. The user ID and password is often the same as your email user ID
and password. You enter this information for the new account. At that
point, the news reader will require you to download a list of the newsgroups
it carries. From that list, you can select newsgroups you want to read. To
read this one, select "rec.aviation.piloting".

There is, of course, a lot more you can do with a news reader. One popular
feature is the "kill file" (implemented in a variety of ways in different
news readers), that you can use to filter out particular threads, messages,
or even individuals. One of the biggest advantages IMHO over a web
interface is that with a news reader, you download all the new messages at
once, and they are stored locally. Browsing through the newsgroup is much
faster and easier, and doesn't involve any overhead of sending lots of data
back and forth between you and the web site (and in fact, once the messages
are downloaded, you don't even need to be connected to the Internet until
you want to download again and/or post new messages yourself).

Commonly used news readers on Windows include Outlook Express, Agent, Free
Agent (a free version of Agent, with fewer features), 40titude, and Xnews.
There are a number of other news readers available on other operating
systems as well.

I'll also reiterate that while I agree with Jose that using a news reader is
better than using a web interface, a) not everyone agrees with us, and b) in
spite of what Jose says, you are not actually posting in HTML and aren't
really causing a real problem for anyone. There are other reasons to not
use a web interface, but your posts coming across as HTML isn't one of them,
since that's not actually happening.

Pete