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You may already have a Google Groups account and not know it! If you've
signed up for GMail then you have a Google Groups account. Just use the
same user name and password that you'd use to sign on there. If you don't
you can register. Registration is free.
I don't think you necessarily need a Google Groups account unless you're
following individual newsgroups. But it may turn out that you do want to
follow individual newsgroups—a group may cover your topic perfectly and
may not be worth iltering by keyword. here may be several groups that it
your topics this way.
When you irst log on to Google Groups your page will look like Figure 9.8 .
Figure 9.8 Logging on to the google groups account.
here is a Groups Lookup at the bottom of the page where you can search
for newsgroups and mailing lists of interest.
So say you ind a few newsgroups to which you want to subscribe. When you join
them you're given several subscription options as you can see in Figure 9.9 .
I always choose to read the newsgroups to which I subscribe on the Web—
what's the use of having a Web-based interface if you don't use it?—but you
may wish to receive regular e-mail or digests.
Once you've subscribed to a few newsgroups, reading them via your Google
Groups page will look like Figure 9.10 .