The fist step toward subscribing to a newsgroup involves finding the name of the newsgroup you want to subscribe to. If you already know the name of the desired newsgroup, you're one step ahead. If you don't know the name of the newsgroup you want, you can search for one (or for as many as you want).

1. In the Outlook Express Tools menu, click Newsgroups... (with Macintosh, click the Sympatico.ca icon in the folder list).
2. Enter a keyword in the Display newsgroups which contain: text box, or leave it empty and browse through the entire list of newsgroups. (With Macintosh, the Display newsgroups containing: text box appears at the top of the Outlook Express window.)
3. Single-click the name of the newsgroup you want to subscribe to, then click the Subscribe button.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to subscribe to more than one newsgroup.
5. With Windows computers, click OK. The newsgroup(s) you just subscribed to will appear inside your Sympatico.ca folder.

The subscription window

With Windows:

Right-click the name of the newsgroup in the Sympatico.ca folder, then click Unsubscribe.

1. Locate the newsgroup in the scrolling list at right (it's quickest to type its name in the field labeled Display newsgroups containing:). Subscribed newsgroups appear hilighted.
2. Single-click on the newsgroup. Then click the Unsubscribe button.