Posted February 23, 201014 yr +1 Bruce Hagen wrote: > "Rhino" wrote in message > news:u1xaW7MtKHA.4636@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> I come to this newsgroup periodically when I have an issue with Windows >> but that doesn't happen very often. >> >> I'm using Outlook Express on XP as my news reader and when I try to get >> a complete list of newsgroups on msnews.microsoft.com, this >> (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general) is the ONLY newsgroup listed on the >> whole server. >> >> What's going on? Has Microsoft gone over to a web-based approach and >> abandoned usenet as I suspect? If they have, what is this one solitary >> newsgroup still doing in existence? Surely it can't be worth the bother >> to keep the new server alive for only one newsgroup, even if it is >> fairly heavily used like this one..... >> >> If this news server IS dead, where are we supposed to be going? >> -- >> Rhino >> > > > More like 2,000+ > > Outlook Express General newsgroup: > http://news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general > > OT. From your message headers: > > X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 > > You are running a very old and less secure version of Outlook Express. You > do not have even one critical update since SP2 was released in August, > 2004. Do yourself a favor and visit Windows Updates ASAP.
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