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                              Direct Read News

       Zippo Direct Read News � is a proprietary protocol which
       permits reading, decoding, displaying and saving Usenet News
       articles without the use of a news reader, a decoder, or an
       nntp connection. Reading news articles, text or graphic, is
       now as easy as clicking on a hypertext link.

       If you have access to the Web, you have access to current
       Usenet News. This is not an archive, or a database of
       articles, this is material received on our news servers on a
       continual basis, 24 hours a day.

       This implementation of Direct Read News � has been optimized
       for our public news service, Home Page http://www.zippo.com.
       An extended feature version of Direct Read News has been
       implemented on our subscription news service, Super Zippo.
       Some of the extended features are sorting (date, article
       number, author, and subject) and newsgroup subscribe. This is
       a new interface, so features will be added on an ongoing
       basis, and we will continue to optimize the program's speed
       and performance.

       How to Use Direct Read News

          * Point your web browser to the home page
            http://www.zippo.com
          * Click on any hypertext newsgroup category listed.
          * Click on any newsgroup
          * To decode and display a graphic file, click on the icon
            at the left of the header
          * To decode and display a multi-part file, click on any
            one segment. The server will find the others and
            assemble them, or advise of missing parts
          * To read an article, click on the hypertext article
            header
          * To save an article on your system, select "save" on your
            browser
          * To post a new article to a newsgroup, click on "post" at
            the top of the header list
          * To respond to an existing article, from the open
            article, click on "post" at the top of the page

     Please direct questions to Joe Zip - Editor - Zippo News Services.

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