These are Quick and Dirty Instructions for reading the news using Netscape Navigator versions 2.0 and 3.0.

Complete documentation for reading news is available at Netscape's Site at : http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/handbook/docs/mnb.html#C6

Step One: Open Netscape version 2.0 or 3.0

Step Two: Configure the Preferences

Under the Options Menu, choose Mail and News Preferences

Within this set of options, there are three relevant screens to set up: servers, identity, and organization.

Servers should be set-up with the news server set-up to be news.wesleyan.edu
(a graphical view of how the configuration should look is available here)

Identity should be set-up with your name and your email password filled out. This allows you to identify yourself when you post messages.
(a graphical view of how the configuration should look is available here)

Organization can be set up to thread messages or not, and to set the defaults for how messages are sorted. You may want to test out various options to see what you prefer.
(a graphical view of a sample organization configuration is available here)

Step Three: Go to the news group

One can get to the newsgroup by three methods.

1) Follow a link, such as this.
2) In the Navigator, use the Open Location function under the File Menu and type in news:wes.philosophy.moralpsychology
3) Under the Window menu, choose Netscape News, which will send you into the NewsReader, and then from within the NewsReader, choose Add Newsgroup under the File Menu, and then type in wes.philosophy.moralpsychology.

Step Four: Read, Respond, Post

Once one has configured the Navigator to read the news, you can then read through the articles, respond to the articles, and post new articles. As noted above, the myriad options for sorting and reading are detailed at Netscape's Site at : http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/handbook/docs/mnb.html#C6

A key to working with the Netscape News reader is understanding that the typically truncated views of who sent what when can be fixed by sliding the labels and the frames manually. Thus the uninteligible screen here:

Can with some admittedly cumbersome manual intervention, be realligned to provide useful information about what group one is reading, what the subject and date and author of the article are, and whether you have read the article before, as below: