I have a question on Corel PaintShop Pro X, which I am told cannot be answered in the usual forum, so I should use cnews.corel.com.  How do I get in there to post my question?

 You will need to do this via a newsreader program. I use Mail which is the Vista successor to Outlook Express. Click on this link: news:cnews.corel.com and see if anything happens.

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>I have a question on Corel PaintShop Pro X, which I am told cannot be
>answered in the usual forum, so I should use cnews.corel.com. How do I get
>in there to post my question?
>

Geoff, if you have Outlook Express, you just add an "account" - Tools |
Accounts | News - then click on the ADD button and use cnews.corel.com as
the NNTP server name.

Thanks for replies, but we're not quite there yet.  I use Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express and have set that up as instructed on the Mozilla website.  About 497 topics have come flooding in from cnews.corel.com, but unfortunately none on the subject of my original question: settings for the Clone tool in PaintShop Pro X.

So I can receive answers, but how do I send questions?

Hunter: what is an NNTP server, where would I find one and how would I use it to post to cnews.corel.com?  (Your reply a bit too techie for me in this field!)

wrote in message news:22234@coreldraw.com...
> Thanks for replies, but we're not quite there yet. I use Thunderbird
> instead of Outlook Express and have set that up as instructed on the
> Mozilla website. About 497 topics have come flooding in from
> cnews.corel.com, but unfortunately none on the subject of my original
> question: settings for the Clone tool in PaintShop Pro X.
>
> So I can receive answers, but how do I send questions?
>
> Hunter: what is an NNTP server, where would I find one and how would I use
> it to post to cnews.corel.com? (Your reply a bit too techie for me in
> this field!)
>

sorry for the delay, I'm usually elsewhere on the weekends....

NNTP stands for Network News Transport Protocol (just like FTP = File
Transfer Protocol and SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and POP = Post
Office Protocol). NNTP is the "old school" type of "forum"; primarily use on
UseNet newsgroups, but many software companies maintain their own NNTP
servers for user-to-user support.

These news servers contain many different newsgroups covering probably most
any topic you could think of (on UseNet) and the software companies that
maintain their own, it can depend on the topics, but usually are setup in
such a way that there are different newsgroups for each version of the
various software products they carry.

As for posting to the newsgroups, you just need to setup your newsreader to
connect to one of the news servers in the world, then have it populate a
list of what newsgroups there are on that server. The method of posting will
probably vary depending on the application you're using to connect to said
server, but they're basically like email - for example in Outlook Express
(it's what I use) when I have a NG selected, in my menu bar there are
buttons for "new post", "reply group", and "reply" - New Post would create a
new message and Reply Group is what you'd use to reply to a message on the
newsgroup (don't use "reply" as that will go via email to only that person
and most people using NNTP newsgroups never post their real email address so
as to reduce spam because their real addresses could be harvested there by
spammers).