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From: Bob I on 19 Feb 2010 10:52
Double click this link and OE should fire off.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general

RichUE wrote:

> Yes, I realise that this newsgroup is about Outlook, but there's no other
> suitable category. I checked the Profile Help but it didn't yield any and
> there's no opportunity to post questions. I assumed that as there was a
> Profile setting for notifications, and I had received them in the past, there
> might be a problem you could help me with.
> I tried entering "Newsgroups" into the Outlook Help and began to follow the
> instructions for adding News to the Go menu, but it seems that my
> version/installation of Outlook doesn't have that feature.
> Can you suggest a newsreader that will work under Win2kpro & IE6? I'll
> pre-empt your question about using the latest OS by saying that I have to use
> what I'm given.

From: VanguardLH on 19 Feb 2010 11:14
RichUE wrote:

> Yes, I realise that this newsgroup is about Outlook, but there's no other
> suitable category. I checked the Profile Help but it didn't yield any and
> there's no opportunity to post questions. I assumed that as there was a
> Profile setting for notifications, and I had received them in the past, there
> might be a problem you could help me with.
> I tried entering "Newsgroups" into the Outlook Help and began to follow the
> instructions for adding News to the Go menu, but it seems that my
> version/installation of Outlook doesn't have that feature.
> Can you suggest a newsreader that will work under Win2kpro & IE6? I'll
> pre-empt your question about using the latest OS by saying that I have to use
> what I'm given.

If you have IE6 installed then you also have OE6 (Outlook Express v6)
installed. It does both e-mail and newsgroups (NNTP).

Outlook has never had nor probably will ever have NNTP support. Companies
are not clamoring for Microsoft to add a feature that they see as a waste of
their employees' time. The News menu did nothing other than to start
another program which was designated in Windows as the newsreader program.
Outlook doesn't do NNTP. The News command started some other program. Why
waste time loading Outlook to wade through menus to then have Outlook start
another program than to start the other program up first?

While OE is a poor newsreader program, it does work well enough for many
users. "I have to use what I'm given" sounds like you have a workstation or
laptop assigned to you by your company and whose setup regarding software
you are not allowed to alter by installing more software. That precludes
using other newsreaders, like Thunderbird (which is better in some ways than
OE but worse in other ways), Xnews, Xananews, 40Tude Dialog, MesNews, etc.
However, since this seems to be a company computer, remember that anything
you do on it might be getting monitored either with Big Brother software on
that host and/or by interrogating the traffic you generate on their network.
They might have policies restricting you from using their property for
non-work related tasks.
From: RichUE on 10 Mar 2010 07:31
This doesn't appear to be a valid NNTP server name. Outlook Express doesn't
like it.
--
Richard
Using Office 2003 & Win2kpro

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"Bob I" wrote:

> Double click this link and OE should fire off.
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general
>
> RichUE wrote:
>
> > Yes, I realise that this newsgroup is about Outlook, but there's no other
> > suitable category. I checked the Profile Help but it didn't yield any and
> > there's no opportunity to post questions. I assumed that as there was a
> > Profile setting for notifications, and I had received them in the past, there
> > might be a problem you could help me with.
> > I tried entering "Newsgroups" into the Outlook Help and began to follow the
> > instructions for adding News to the Go menu, but it seems that my
> > version/installation of Outlook doesn't have that feature.
> > Can you suggest a newsreader that will work under Win2kpro & IE6? I'll
> > pre-empt your question about using the latest OS by saying that I have to use
> > what I'm given.
>
> .
>
From: Bob I on 10 Mar 2010 08:58
It's valid, there must be something wrong with your settings. Perhaps
the error message would indicate what. Also please don't use a sig
separator if you are not bottom posting, as it causes proper e-mail
client to strip everything after it.

Also more info at link below about newsgroup listings.
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

RichUE wrote:

> This doesn't appear to be a valid NNTP server name. Outlook Express doesn't
> like it.

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