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Subscribing and Unsubscribing to News Channels

This section contains the following information:

News Channels Subscriptions Window Overview

Select the news button from the main Instant Messenger user interface window. Then select the Subscribe button. The News Channel Subscriptions window is displayed; it enables you to subscribe to and from News Channels.

This window contains the following items:

See Also:

Administering Rooms and News Channels

To Subscribe to and Unsubscribe from News Channels

  1. From the News Channels window, click Subscribe.
  2. The News Channels Subscription window appears with a list of news channels to which you have access and a list of subscribed news channels.


    Note

    News channels are named name@domain, with the exception of the Alerts channel, which are named as topic-Alerts@local.


  3. To subscribe to a news channel: Select the news channel from the News Channels list, and click Add. The news channel is added to the Subscribed list. Click Close, when done.
  4. To unsubscribe from a news channel: Select the news channel in the Subscribed list, and click Remove. The news channel is removed from the Subscribed list. Click Close, when done.

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