Ken (and Peter) - this may explain my problem - I was using OE as my mail
client until recently, (but had not newsgroups set up), and was able to use
the MS discuss groups without problem. Recently switched to Outlook, didn't
do anything re newsgroups - could this explain/compound flakey performance?
I've added "news" to my go menu as the article suggested, but don't know how
to "subscribe" to this discussion board - is there another article you can
link me to re that? Also, I selected the msnews.microsoft.com for the NNTP
server, as the article suggested, but since I'll mainly want to use the
microsoft discussion areas, I'm confused re not using my real email address -
that's required to post to the ms discuss area - please explain further, if
possible
Anyway, I set up initially with the email and password that I use on
microsoft discussion groups, but when I open news, it said that login failed
(because it was only pointed to nsnew.mocrosoft.com?).
I suspect I'm making progress, but not there yet - my need is simple - when
I have a tech problem I want to be able to post it in the correct area of the
ms discuss groups - now that I have got outlook set up to have the "news"
button, what do I do when I want to go to the discuss area and post a
questions?
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:34:02 -0700, jhnptbrg
> <jhnptbrg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > More than half the time I come here with an issue, I tried to post a new
> > question, am asked to sign in, do so successfully (sign in changes to sign
> > out) but then no new window opens to allow me to enter my question. I try
> > selecting new question several times, and after the 1st time (where is
> > prompts for log in) nothing happens.
> >
> > What is wrong with my system/the way I am using this area?
>
>
> You are thinking of this as a web site, when in fact it's actually a
> newsgroup.
>
> The reason you're having such problems is that you are using the awful
> web interface to read this newsgroup--it's the slowest, clunkiest,
> most error-prone method there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a
> newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes with Windows. See
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm
>
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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