Subscribing and unsubscribing to a newsgroup

Selecting the All matching groups... item displays a dialog window, prompting you for an expression to search on:

If the search expression includes one or more blanks, the blanks are treated as delimiters of separate search arguments. For example, if the search expression is "corvette ferrari", then WebReader will look for group names which contain either the word "corvette" or "ferrari".

Pressing the Apply button in the matching groups dialog causes WebReader to search for any newsgroups whose group descriptions satisfy the search expression. If you have checked the Display group hierarchies: box in the server properties window, the results of the match may appear as follows:

or, after expanding a few folders and selecting some groups,

Press the Unsubscribe button in the toolbar to unsubscribe from the selected group(s).

Select the Visit a Group button to visit a (single) selected group.

Press the Subscribe button to subscribe to the selected group(s).

To return to the WebReader main window, press the Return button.

Other ways to unsubscribe from a newsgroup include the following:


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