Alternate ways to access the User to User Forums

Must've been a firewall issue, as Free Agent works perfectly well from home (what port is this stuff on?)

By the way, the Indesign Scripting forum doesn't seem to be coming through on Free Agent. There's the Windows, Mac, the SDK, and the Service Provider forums under Indesign, but seems I can only access the scripting one via the web?

Margie

- I can't seem to get this to work as a newsgroup in Free Agent. I set the News Server to www.adobeforums.com or adobeforums.com. I put in my user name (which has a space) and my password. I clicked on Get New Groups, and I get a message saying "Sorry! An online error occured When: looking up server www.adobeforums.com

- I would much prefer a regular newsgroup that gets archived and is usable by google.com (please!?)

- even so, I can't read this is as a newsgroup in Free Agent, and any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Margie

Hi Terry.

All of the forum newsgroups are on the same server. So if Photoshop is up to date GoLive should also be up to date.

I just subscribed to GoLive Windows via Outlook Express and the newest message I see there is "Importing an Image Created in ImageReady with Image Map Rollover Settings" dated Monday, October 29, 2001 11:12 AM

What newsreader are you using? Can you tell it to refresh its view of the server?

John

It's been a few months since I needed to consult Adobe user-to-user forums. My preferred method is via news reader. In the past, I have used both Photoshop (Windows) and GoLive (Windows) groups. However, only the Photoshop newsgroup appears to be working properly at the moment. The last message on the GoLive newsgroup is dated 6/1/2001. Is this newsgroup still functioning? If not, will it be soon?

Please _don't_ suggest (as others have in the past) that I would be better off viewing the forum from Adobe's website. The newsgroup version is infinitely more convenient for me.

Thanks,
Terry

There is one caveat about using the Forums as a mailing list. You will not be able to post messages via email if you have more than one Forum account with the same email address. In this case the Forum will bounce your mail back to you saying that it couldn't authenticate you and the email will have a link back to the message thread.

For testing using the Forums as a mailing list the Forum Comments Forum (that you are reading right now) has been set up as a mail list.

To receive and reply to messages via your email client you have to make a couple of changes in your forum preferences.

First, decide if you would like to receive individual messages, or a digest of messages. If you want to receive individual messages, decide if you want to get the full message or just an alert that there are new messages in the discussion.

Go to your forum preferences and make sure that the email address listed there is correct. Then go to the Email Notification section and check the box if you want to receive full messages in email (if you don't click the box you will just get a link back to the forum).

If you want to receive email digests instead of individual messages you can select what day(s) and time(s) you want to have the digests mailed out to you.

Scroll down and click on Accept Changes.

Then go to the list of topics in this forum ( http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@@.ee6b30e ) and click on "Subscribe" or "Change Subscriptions" in the gray box above the list of topics.

In there you have the choice of how to handle your subscriptions. If you select Check Messages you will have to come to the web site and use the Read Subscription link to view your subscribed messages. If you select Email then new messages in the forum will be sent to your email address. If you select Digest you will be sent digests according to the schedule you have set in your Preferences.

To access the forums via a news reader you have to point the news reader to the adobeforums.com news server. You can also try www.adobeforums.com as the news server name.

When accessing via a news reader you have to have first set up an account in the forums. And you have to tell your news reader that the forum requires you to log in and have it send your user name and password when checking the news groups.

You can use a stand alone news reader such as Forte's Agent or you can use a mail program like Microsoft Outlook Express.