Re: NEWSGROUPS ?

Well, to add to the fun and games, that is no longer true with current Exchange development. No more NNTP and no more public folders (soon, very soon...)

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, DarkSentinel asked:

| "Brian Tillman" <tillman1952@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:eG8o1uuJIHA.3356@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| DarkSentinel <darksentinel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
||
||| That is not exactly technically true. You CAN set your Exchange
||| Server to pull news groups, and access them through Public
||| Folders(if I remember correctly) in Outlook.
||
|| It is technically true. It is Exchange acting as the NNTP agent in
|| this case, not Outlook. Outlook is accessing an ordinary Public
|| Folder, not a newsgroup.
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|| Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
|
| The point I was trying to make here, is that you CAN access
| newsgroups with it, albeit in a round about fashion. Doesn't matter
| WHAT server it is. Exchange is filling the part of the NNTP server
| no? And accessing the public folder is analogous to subscribing to
| the group. I never stated that it would do it directly as OE, Agent,
| et al do, now did I? All I stated was it COULD be done.
.

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