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These tutorials take you through the fundamental NewsRog concepts. The first five are best read in order, since they deal with progressively more advanced concepts, with each building on things learned in the previous. Click on the title at left to view the associated tutorial, or click on one of these toolbar buttons to go to the indicated areas.
Tutorial 1:
Projects 		This tutorial explains the operation of the main NewsRog toolbar . It explains what projects are, and how you save and load them. It explains the difference between online and offline mode, and how to switch between them, and how to access the main program windows. It should be straightforward to anyone with experience using the Amiga or other windowing system based computers.
Tutorial 2:
Usenet 		This tutorial explains the basic concepts of usenet news: what it is, how it works, where it came from, the difference between usenet and the internet, where to find usenet FAQs, news server requirements to use NewsRog, and guidelines for good posting etiquette.
Tutorial 3:
Common Features 		This tutorial explains common features available most places within the program, including online help, various features of lists, drag & drop, searching, sorting, column selection, and clipboard support.
Tutorial 4:
Initial Configuration 		How to configure NewsRog for your particular system: the function of the default project, adding news servers, and user configuration. (changing your user name and email address, posting organization, and cache sizes).
Tutorial 5:
Newsreading Basics 		Basic features for reading news: subscribing to and unsubscribing from news groups, function and operation of the group window, selecting articles to read, the article view area, single key browsing, and properly closing group windows.
Tutorial 6:
The Group List 		Features of the group list and server group list windows: group list buttons, displayable column data, group list menus, the server groups window, and group list options.
Tutorial 7:
The Server List 		Features of the server list window: general server information, the purpose of the default server, server list commands, displayable column data, setting timeout values, server statistics, and tuning your configuration for maximum performance.
Tutorial 8:
The Network Connection List 		Network connections: a networking overview, how to abort network IO, what information is available about network connections, and how and when new network connections are created.
Tutorial 9:
The Post Queue 		The post queue and post editor windows: and overview of the on and offline posting system, how to create new posts, post queue commands, the use of the post editor, and what information is available about posts.
Tutorial 10:
Multimedia Types 		The multimedia actions and type recognition system: how non-texual information is represented on usenet, what multimedia types are, how to define multimedia actions, how to set action parameters, the multimedia types recognition system, and various types of multimedia type matching.
Tutorial 11:
Config Options 		Program configuration options: a configuration overview, options related to projects, news options, options dealing with windows, miscellaneous options, and default columns.
Tutorial 12:
Selection & Kill Filters 		Selection and Kill filters: What they are, why they are useful, information on filter scope, adding and deleting filters, how to edit filters, filter common features, various ways to expire, filters automatically, editing filter global information, and viewing filter statistics.
Tutorial 13:
Display Filters 		Display filters: What they are, why they are useful, information on filter scope, adding and deleting filters, how to edit filters, filter common features, and editing filter global information.
Tutorial 14:
Group Reader 		This tutorial presents most of the intermediate and advanced concepts not covered in Tutorial 5 (Newsreading Basics). It uses concepts from most of the previous tutorials, and describes: the main group window areas, what the status bar does, how to abort pending network operations, the commands available from the article list toolbar, including changing the list mode, viewing read or unread articles, killing by thread or author, changing the selection filter view, and running user defined actions.

The article viewer toolbar includes commands such as movement, article browsing, changing the display filter view, how to search for article text, and copying article text to the system clipboard.

Lastly, group specific configuration options are explained, along with an overview of commands available from the group menus.