Re: Trouble accessing these newsgroups

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From: Alan Edwards (edwards_at_southcom.com.au)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:03:29 +1100

Outlook Express Newsreader-Setting up
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/community/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/resources/communities.htm#setupmsnews

...Alan 

-- 
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html
 
In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, Scotty
<Scotty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Can you give some detail on how to setup the newgroup in OE?  I clicked the 
>setup newsgroups in OE, but it is asking me for a NNTP server.  Thanks in 
>advance for your help.
>
>"Modem Ani" wrote:
>
>> Newsgroups were intended to be viewed with a newsreader, not on the web.
>> Outlook Express has a built-in newsreader which is easy to use. Use OE to
>> read newsgroups and you won't have the problems you are currently
>> experiencing.
>> 
>> Modem Ani
>> 
>> "Scotty" <Scotty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4F9448A5-8D45-46DE-9AB0-5E22965CE938@microsoft.com...
>> > As of yesterday I was having trouble accessing these newsgroups from my
>> > computer.  It would let me go to the newgroups home page, then english,
>> and
>> > then choose a topic, but when I tried to enter the actual newsgroup it
>> would
>> > say page could not be displayed.  Eventually I figured out that if I
>> deleted
>> > all my cookies that it would work.  I came in this morning and I had to
>> > delete my cookies again.  Does anyone know why this might be happening?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>>

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