Right. Until you try to connect and half the MS newsgroups are missing, so
you call, and they say "Oh, we don't support that. We subscribe to
thousands...but we don't take requests or anything."
And I can't figure out how to get to news.verizon.net. If I put it in OE, it
goes nowhere. If I put it in IE, page cannot be displayed. Am I clueless, or
what? :)
Thanks for the help.
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com


"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
...
There seem to be lots of newsgroups on:
news.verizon.net

And this site says Verizon offers 1000's of newsgroups...


http://netservices.verizon.net/porta...95c48&case=449

or
http://tinyurl.com/bm6e7

But I'd still connect directly to the microsoft servers for the
microsoft.public.* groups.



Anne Troy wrote:

Gord: I just added that, and I see 8 messages all dated pre-April, 2005.
So
I don't know how, but... that ain't workin'. I pay $6 per month through
http://allthenewsgroups.com because Verizon doesn't even have the
Excel/Word
ones listed and they "don't support newsgroups".
*******************
~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com

"Gordon" wrote in message
...
"Kassie" wrote in message
...
Sounds like a lot of hassle to me. Then I have to beg my ISP for an
NNTP
server name, and just now pay for that as well.

Not for this news server you don't. It's free and you can access it
from
any
ISP.
Just use "msnews.microsoft.com" (without the quotes" as your news
server.



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Dave Peterson