On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:02:17 -0000, "Mike Cawood, HND BIT"
<me@privacy.net> wrote:
> "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:eDtsV9%23RIHA.5136@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> > philb wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> Which server do i use to be able to see this newsgroup in outlook please?
> >> i use tiscali in the uk, but they dont hold this one.
> >>
> >
> > Outlook doesn't do newsgroups; it calls Outlook Express. The Microsoft
> > server is msnews.microsoft.com and no username/password is required. Here
> > is some additional information that may be helpful to you:
> >
> Strange - I used MS Outlook 2000 for a while and had no trouble reading
> newsgroups with it.
You may have thought you were reading newsgroups with it, but you
weren't. All that happens when you use what Microsoft calls the
"Microsoft Outlook Newsreader" is that Outlook starts Outlook Express
for you, in newsonly mode.
So it's really Outlook Express, and not Outlook at all. If you need
any corroboration of that, try deleting msimn.exe (Outlook Express) or
changing its name, and trying to run the "Microsoft Outlook
Newsreader." It won't work.
You are not the first person Microsoft has confused with their weird
nomenclature.
> In fact, Outlook seems to use the same newsreader as Outlook Express.
It's not the same newsreader as Outlook Express, it *is* Outlook
Express.
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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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