Unison Setup Guide

This guide will walk you through setting up Panic Unison to work with Giganews servers. If you haven't already signed up for Usenet access then definitely give Giganews a try. They offer 585 days binary retention, SSL encryption and servers in the US, Europe and Hong Kong. Sign up for the Giganews 14 day free trial and start downloading in minutes.

*Keep Note, you will need a Mac with OSX to run this software

Step 1 - Downloading and Running Unison Installer

Go to Panic's site and download the latest version of Unison. Double Click the Unison install icon (Figure 1)

Figure 1 - Panic Unison


Select Configure under Configure Your Access (Figure 2)

Figure 2 - Configure Your Access


Enter in your Server, Username, and Password and hit OK (Figure 3)

Figure 3 - Unison (NNTP Server Setup)


The setup screen includes everything you need to get up and running. Simply enter the information as follows:
- Server: enter in news.giganews.com
- Username and Password: provided in email
- click OK

It's that simple to configure Panic's Unison for Giganews. Enjoy!