Thankyou all for responding to my question, and your solution(s) are quite
helpful. However, if there were preferences and choices, the website was was
where I initially found discussion groups and I would prefer to use that
than windows mail, or outlook express. so this is my first use of windows
mail to answer all your responses. thankyou all very much.
"Jim Cone" wrote in message
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If you have Internet Explorer, you have Outlook Express.
OE is included with Internet Explorer.

To start OE go to...
Start | Run and enter... msimn.exe ...and press OK.
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Jim Cone
Portland, Oregon USA



"Foxcole"
wrote in message
"Jon Peltier" wrote:
Regular visitors to the newsgroups use other means to get he
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/HintsA...roupUsers.aspx

That is very helpful for people who have Outlook Express. However, I'm
at work and we do not use Outlook Express. Do you have any other
suggestions for connecting to the newsgroups?

I'm desperate for help with several problems on an overdue project and
have found this to be an excessive hindrance. It's hard enough to get
help, without being cut off from it in the first place.

Do you perhaps also have a link to more information on what that
service-unavailable message means... what's wrong and why we can't
connect via the website?