How to get to your news groups and messages faster

[charleychacko]

You already know how to get to WWW sites and FTP sites using CTRL+L (CTRL+O in some browsers) or the "Location" (or "Address") input boxes -- simply type http:// or ftp:// followed by the address of the site. Did you know that you can use the same technique to get to your news groups and even news messages?
Press CTRL+L (CTRL+O in some browsers)

If you have only one news server setup or if you don't know the name of your news server (and still you can access news)...
 
Type "You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login (without quotes) followed by the name of the news group you'd like to visit. For example, if you want to read the "comp.internet.net-happenings" news group, type:
    You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

OR, if you have multiple news servers...
 

Type "You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login followed by the name of the news server followed by "/" and then finally the name of the news group. For example, if you want to visit the "comp.unix.admin" news group from a news server named "news.dummy-server.com" type:
    You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login


Press ENTER

You could also go to a particular message in a selected news group located on a given news server. Unfortunately, the message IDs that you have to remember in order to do this aren't that easy to remember.