OT - Instructions on switching to the free Usenet news server at motzarella.org for Outlook users

[Tad Perry]

I'm posting this for people who have been abandoned by Comcast and want a
free news server to replace their old service.

This post give full instructions for switching to news.motzarella.org
because not all of the settings you need to make are explicitly spelled out
for you when you set up your new account with motzarella.

This post takes you from not having an account, to being subscribed to all
the same newsgroups on the news.motazarella.org server in ten easy steps.

1. Go to http://www.motarella.org/

2. On their home page register for a free account. They will send you a
"user id" and a password in e-mail.

3. Open Outlook, if not already open.

4. Select [Tools] > [Accounts...], and click the [News] tab.

5. Referring to the e-mail sent to you, click [Add] and enter your
information.

6. After you enter the information and click [Finish], you're not really
finished. You still need to click the [Properties] button for this new
account to put all the settings right. So click [Properties].

7. There are four tabs under Properties: [General], [Server], [Connection],
and [Advanced]. The information on the [General] tab is all okay and does
not need to be changed.

8. Click the [Server] tab. The "Server name:" should be set to
news.motzrella.org. Make sure that "This server requires me to log on" is
checked and that "Account name:" is set to the "user id" you registered with
Motzarella. Make sure your password is entered. Check "Remember password"
but do NOT check "Log on using Secure Password Authentication."

9. Click the [Connection] tab and check "Always connect to this account
using:" and make sure that "Local Area Network" appears in the drop down box
if you use a LAN in your home.

10. Click the [Advanced] tab and make sure that the Port No. is set to
"119."

Close out of "news.motzarella.org Properties" and "Internet Accounts."

"news.motzarella.org" now appears in your Folders pane under Outlook
(usually on the left). Click on "news.motzarella.org" and you will be asked
if you want to download a list of newsgroups. Do so. Then subscribe to the
newsgroups you like to read.

You're finished.

You can now enjoy newsgroups as usual and forget that Comcast finally broke
it's promise to provide them to customers free of charge.

(Their server wasn't that great anyway.)

tvp

[The Raider on a Rock]

Thanks for taking the time to post this. Very helpful.

[Tad Perry]

"The Raider on a Rock" <CatFetch...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:225e7f79-ed22-4dac...@u29g2000pro.googlegroups.com...

Many people have said so. I'm glad I could help. I realized as I was signing
up, that there were unstated things that would prevent people from
connecting to the server successfully, and that they were going to have a
whole lot of problems connecting if someone didn't clear it up.

tvp

[Kyle T. Jones]

Tad Perry wrote:

Ha! I added the routing info for motzarella.org to my killfile, and all
the freeloading democrats disappeared from this hear chatrum!

Thanks for the tip!

Toodles!