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walter · External Since: Sep 07, 2009 Posts: 1

how do you join more newsgroups through outlook express 2003?

Dori A Schmetterling · External Since: Mar 21, 2009 Posts: 19

In my toolbar (OE v6) I have a Newsgroups button.

Hit that and select subject.

If you don't have it right-click on toolbar, then Customize, then add
button.

DAS

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VanguardLH · External Since: Mar 15, 2009 Posts: 15

walter wrote:

> how do you join more newsgroups through outlook express 2003?

You'll first have to write the code for Outlook Express 2003 since no
such product currently exists.

Then find an NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) server that you want
to use. There are free ones (that carry only text groups), paid ones
(to include binaries), and author-specific ones (like for Microsoft,
Mozilla, GRC, SpamCop, etc). Once you add an NNTP server, retrieve the
groups list from it and decide to which ones you want to subscribe.

Since you said how to join *more* groups which means you already have an
NNTP server defined in OE version *6* then reset the groups list (to
download the latest list of them) and simply subscribe to others that
you want to keep showing in OE6 when you next reload it. What groups
are available depends on which ones the NNTP server carries to which you
connect.

N. Miller · External Since: Jul 31, 2006 Posts: 820

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:07:06 -0700, walter wrote:

> how do you join more newsgroups through outlook express 2003?

You don't. Not with "Outlook Express 2003". With Outlook 2003, you will be
calling a news client; probably Outlook Express 6, in your case. And you
will need a news server. Since you are posting through
'msnews.microsoft.com', you will only be able to subscribe to the groups
available on that server. And, as a Verizon user, your ISP news server is
going away, for good, so you will need a replacement, if that is what you
were asking about.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

PA Bear [MS MVP] · External Since: Jan 08, 2009 Posts: 206

check in at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com & get that WinXP computer
fully-patched, then reply to this post and I'll tell you.

walter wrote:
> how do you join more newsgroups through outlook express 2003?