Re: outlook 2007 no newsgroups

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"Bob Buckland ?:-)" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in message news:eOIcRt1MHHA.2236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Beck,

It's not a matter so much of "can't do it" (almost any of the Office apps *could* be equipped to do what other apps do), but more on
the line of not in the game plan for Outlook as something to put resources on.

The NNTP news interface belongs to the Windows and Internet Explorer teams (as does Outlook Express and its news capabilities).
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257824/en-us?FR=1

Corporate admins generally don't allow access to NNTP servers, as the attachments to messages posted can (and have) been known to
contain viruses and other malware, and in earlier versions of Windows, which were common when Outlook first came out, it wasn't as
easy implement and segment out outside access from an app vs. Windows as it is today.

It's not that folks who were testing the product didn't try <g>.
The request to have that feature in the product has been made and denied for several versions. MS offered the ability to launch
Outlook Express as a newsreader from within Outlook, along the same lines as using one of the 3rd party apps. Access to newsgroups
with an NNTP client has to some degree been made available through browser based interfaces, such as those on
http://communities.microsoft.com so that folks only need one tool.

MS Office Outlook is a collaboration and email client with ties to the MS Exchange Server Product. The NNTP support has, if I
recall correctly also been removed from the latest Exchange version
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/79df6a3a-29a8-4935-b143-8a66c8d082d4.aspx

As suggested previously, you may want to use the link below to post to the MS Office Outlook discussion group, where more folks with
experience with this may be able to offer additional insights.
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<<"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message news:%23lUYkd1MHHA.1912@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Mike, with respect, nobody has actually given a reason as to why it will
never happen other than they do not want such a feature. We know it is
possible as I said in my other post and you showed with your link, so I have
yet to see a reason why MS cannot implement it.
If there is an official line from MS on this matter I would be very
interested in reading it :-)>>
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Please let us know if this has helped,

Some interesting links there thankyou Bob.
I can appreciate the Outlook is more geared to the business model and most businesses do not use NNTP. I would imagine also many businesses block NNTP ports anyway to stop their employees slacking.

I wanted to buy Outlook because of its collaboration with Active Sync for PDAs on Vista. Now as far as I am concerned, my only gripe with Windows Mail is that currently I cannot seem to get it to sync with PDA and also its lack of RSS.
MS have implemented RSS in both Outlook and Windows Live Mail Desktop (which I think is a very poor program). I think it is an oversight to have omitted RSS out of Windows Mail. If Windows Mail could support RSS then like Outlook having newsgroups it would be a perfect solution for me. I guess MS thinking on this matter is to move people to the WLMD to benefit from the advertising revenue.

I have been using the beta Office 2007 and I really like Outlook but sadly the minimalist in me says no because I want an all in one solution (WMLD does not count). Maybe one day in the future someone will create a plugin for Windows Mail to enable activ sync and RSS.

.

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