cooperative mining? mining pool?

[5891]

can someone give me a walkthrough on how to get into a mining pool. i made an account and set up a miner but couldnt figure out how to get it to start mining in a pool. i really want to get into the use of bitcoins any help would be MUCH appreciated.

[grue]

for btcguild (its the same for all pools)
1. DOWNLOAD A MINER!
2. make a .bat file where the miner is installed
3. put this into the .bat file:
phoenix.exe -u http://worker_name:worker_password@btcguild.com:8332/ -k poclbm DEVICE=1

[5891]

thanks dude im gonna try to set it up now.

[Xenland]

You can find a collection of mining pools with all there pros and cons over at http://mining.bitcoin.cz(Big, 2% Fee), http://simplecoin.us(Small but big payout), http://deepbit.net, http://mp2.fleshvirus.com(Currently Beta, 0% Fees), http://btcguild.com/(0% Fees).