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Newsguy provides additional privacy
and security for members connecting to newsgroups through our web
interface, Direct Read News, with HTTP+SSL. HTTP+SSL (secure
socket layers) allows you to connect to Newsguy's servers by
simply inserting the letter "s" in your URL when you
first enter the newsgroups.
Before using HTTP+SSL, you should
download and install Newsguy's secure certificate. To do this,
simply go to https://acc.newsguy.com/newsguy.crt,
click "Open", select "Install" and follow the
"Next" prompt to install the certificate. This only
needs to be done once. If you're receiving a certificate message
from your browser while using Direct Read News with SSL, please
follow the previous instructions to download and install the
certificate.
Once you've loaded any page within
Direct Read News, just add an "s" after "http"
in your browser's address line. As an example, you first enter the
newsgroup newsguy.general at:
http://drn.newsguy.com/news-bin/wwwnews?newsguy.general
To change to HHTP+SSL, just insert
an "s" after "http" so the URL then looks
like:
https://drn.newsguy.com/news-bin/wwwnews?newsguy.general
You will only need to do this once
at the beginning of each session and all pages you access within
Direct Read News after that will carry forward the secure
connection.
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