Quickly Opening a Newsgroup from your Browser

This is a tip for quickly reading a newsgroup without having to download the whole news file which can take quite some time and be rather large.

If you know the name of the newsgroup you want to read:

1. Within your browser window (either IE4.X or Netscape 4.X) hit Ctrl+O which will bring up the open page window.
2. Type the following: news:"newsgroup name", (e.g.news:alt.invest) then hit Enter
3. The newsreader for the application will download the headers for that particular newsgroup.