"Janet Conroy" wrote
I left a message on another thread about this, after being told off by
Mr R Hinge for viewing this newsgroup via Garden Banter. Please could
someone tell me how to access urg? I've tried Googling it, but altho I
get a home page it won't let me proceed. MY ISP is aol - don't know
whether that's a problem.
P.S. I found Garden Banter by accident and am wondering why it is so
infra dig. The posts from other parts of the world are often
informative and sometimes very amusing.

Here I am, replying to myself. I've tried twice to get a response to
this. Please don't tick me off or write snotty comments when I mention
something I've seen elsewhere on GardenBanter if none of you urglers is
prepared to give me guidance on how to access urg other than via GB.

No doubt you have Outlook Express (or Windows Mail if you have Vista, same
thing) and if you don't use it for e-mail you may not have set it up yet. Do
you also use web page mail from your isp? (Horrid IMO)
To set up OE just open the program and it will ask if you want it to be your
default Mail Program, just say "yes" and it should do it all automatically,
if not you may have to get the setup info for OE from your ISPs web site.

So from then onward when you go online and you open OE it will automatically
download all mail that is waiting for you and you can then read, delete or
save as you wish.


To get onto URG and any of the other 10s thousand of Newsgroups just go to
"Tools" then "Newsgroups" and your PC will download the list of Newsgroups
your ISP has (assuming your ISP has any, some don't). You then search for
uk.rec.gardening and "subscribe" (no fees involved) then when you open OE
and click where is says Inbox or Local Folders (top left) you will see URG
displayed. Simply click on it to come here and download all the latest
posts/comments. You will notice the headings slightly change (from the mail
setting) so have a look and see what they can do, it's quite intuitive IMO.
Always post replies to the Newsgroup not direct to the poster, it's good
manners.
One point, you do need to hide your e-mail address so go to "Tools" then
"accounts" then the News tab and put something like where it
says e-mail address. That way the spammers can't harvest your address.
Hope that helps, if not mail me on the plural of my surname snaily thing bt
internet spot com. :-)

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Regards
Bob Hobden