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Unreliable Newsgroup Access
Totally off topic, but relevant...
I access these NGs directly through MS.com. It's unreliable and slow and frustrating and slow. I'm sure there is a better way to access the NGs - what do you use? Thx, Eric ------------------------- If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? Steven Wright (1955 - ) |
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Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...roupsetup.mspx -- Don Guillett Microsoft MVP Excel SalesAid Software "egun" wrote in message ... Totally off topic, but relevant... I access these NGs directly through MS.com. It's unreliable and slow and frustrating and slow. I'm sure there is a better way to access the NGs - what do you use? Thx, Eric ------------------------- If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? Steven Wright (1955 - ) |
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:12:02 -0800, egun
wrote: Totally off topic, but relevant... I access these NGs directly through MS.com. It's unreliable and slow and frustrating and slow. I'm sure there is a better way to access the NGs - what do you use? I use Forte Agent as my newsreader. It's not free, but it's worth it for me. Here's a page on connecting to the server via nntp - reliable and fast. http://www.cpearson.com/Excel/HintsA...roupUsers.aspx -- Dick |
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Well, that was easy! Thanks, Don.
"Don Guillett" wrote in message ... Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...roupsetup.mspx -- Don Guillett Microsoft MVP Excel SalesAid Software "egun" wrote in message ... Totally off topic, but relevant... I access these NGs directly through MS.com. It's unreliable and slow and frustrating and slow. I'm sure there is a better way to access the NGs - what do you use? Thx, Eric ------------------------- If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? Steven Wright (1955 - ) |
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Okay, something very strange just happened. After I got set up to use the
newsreader in MS Outlook (not Express), I browsed for a while and then closed the newsreader. Later, I went to the "Go" menu and selected "News". What happened next was weird... Instead of opening the newsreader, a Windows Explorer window opened up pointing to a folder somewhere on my system drive (I closed the window before recording the path - argh!). Then, after I closed that window, I went back to the "Go" menu to try again. The "News" menu item was gone! I went to "Customize" to add it back in, and it doesn't even show up in the list of Commands for that Menu! What in the world did I do? |
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