NewzScape

The Binary Newsgroup Downloader

Setup News Servers

The Setup News Servers window can be opened from the Setup Menu.

Use this window to enter the information for all the news servers to which you have access. You only need one server to use NewzScape.

You can enter any descriptive name into the Name box.

In the Server URL box, you can enter the URL or IP address of the server. The URL should look something like this: news.yourisp.com. An IP address is four numbers separated by dots, such as: 123.456.789.012. Normally, using the URL is fine. You only need to resort to the IP address if NewzScape has trouble finding the server.

If the news server requires a username and password, enter them here. Otherwise, leave those two boxes blank. If the server does not require a username and password, and you enter something anyway, it may cause logon problems.

The standard news-server port is 119, though your ISP can change that.

Only your ISP or NSP can tell you what to enter for Server URL, Username, Password, and Port. Unless you subscribe to our news service, we cannot tell you for sure what to enter for any of those things.

This is a little different from PixNewsPro where you entered the news-server info into the settings of each Downloader. Here, once you enter the server info, it will appear on a menu in the Downloader settings and then you simply select it.