Re: Opening Up Newsgroups

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"Baloo" <baloo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:pld3v3-e1m.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxx
: antioch wrote:
:
: > "Baloo" <baloo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: > news:c233v3-knc.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxx
: >> F. Lawrence Kulchar wrote:
: >>
: >>> HOW CAN I DIRECT MY COMPUTER TO GO DIRECTLY TO THIS PAGE WHEN I SIGN
: >>> IN??
: >>
: >> Use a proper newsreader and turn off your capslock instead.
: >> nntp://msnews.microsoft.com/
: >>
: > There's that echo again
: > For goodness sake put it in the correct format so it can be opened in OE
:
: That is the correct format for an NNTP URL. Please read RFC 1738. If OE
: can't understand correctly formed URLs, this is an Outlook Express bug
that
: needs to be fixed, not something the rest of the world should work around.
:
: --
: Baloo
: email & xmpp: baloo@xxxxxxxxx
:

If you are going to reply to someone who is probably using Outlook Express,
don't use links that are RFC compliant, but don't work with Outlook Express.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Ron Sommer

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