Re: unsafe attachments, what's this?

From: Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook] (jfiorelloNOSPAM_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 00:08:26 -0500

Follow Gordon's advice, and if your search doesn't come up with any matching
groups, maybe your news server doesn't carry them. Add the free
msnews.microsoft.com news server to your OE news server list and you'll find
the OE groups there. 

-- 
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook
*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
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In news:LZu3c.12292$%06.3844@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net,
rck wrote:
> So what is the name of the newsgroup? I can't find an OE newsgroup.
> Should I post to IE because its part of IE? Or perhaps to XP because
> IE is part of XP. This is nonsense, Outlook and OE are virtually the
> same for all practical purposes. More Mickeysoft BS.
>
> Bob
>
> "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" <jfiorelloNOSPAM@mvps.org> wrote in
> message news:%23gX9iTkBEHA.2828@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> The only problem with your reasoning, in my book, is that there are
>> SO MANY off-topic OE posts in the Outlook newsgroups for us to wade
>> through on a daily basis.  It's one thing when the OE users don't
>> realize the programs are different -- it's another when they know
>> but don't want to bother posting to the right group.
>>
>> --
>> Jocelyn Fiorello
>> MVP - Outlook
>>
>> *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
>> reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***
>>
>>
>> In news:tzr3c.30251$aT1.16534@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net,
>> rck wrote:
>>
>>> No, I didn't check the options because this started doing it all by
>>> itself and wasn't something I had configured. Apparently it's a
>>> Mickeysoft update feature that changes the configuration without
>>> asking. I inquired in this newsgroup because most people who know
>>> Outlook also know it is so similar to OE that an answer is usually
>>> forthcoming immediately, which it was. The purists get so upset
>>> about something even remotely off-topic. I also own Mickeysoft's
>>> Office Suite with Outlook but it doesn't do newsgroups so I use OE.
>>> Does legal ownership of Mickeysoft's suite grant permission for me
>>> to ask an OE question here? Yep, it sure does in my book.
>>>
>>> Bob

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