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From: Mel on 9 Dec 2009 16:39 FWIW, I've been using Google Groups for years and have been happy with it for the most part. (I followed it over from when it was Deja-news and Google improved it a lot.) I mainly like the ability to search. But I liked the immediacy of postings with seeing the Usenet group directly with a browser such as Outlook express. So, I used one for searching and the other for reading and posting. But now that AT&T dropped newshosting <boo!!!>, I can't get it directly. I'll have to pay a third party provider such as GigaNews if I want to do that (or dump AT&T). Anyone with suggestions for a good newsgroup provider? <g> -Melina On Dec 9, 8:22 am, Dale Fye <dale....(a)nospam.com> wrote: > Steve, > > I recognize that the web app is not the preferred method for viewing the > microsoft news groups. Unfortunately, I'm unable to use Outlook Express or > the 2007 equivalent (don't even know what it is) at the office, so I'm stuck > with the web. When the MS web site gets like this, I frequently turn to one > of the other web based new groups. You would think that MS could get their > office/community site working properly. > > I used to be able to search by my name and at least see my posts from that > day at the top of the list. Now, I'm lucky if that days posts even show up > in the search results. > > I've also never understood why they cannot sort the search results by date. > I understand that this takes a little bit more processing, but for usability, > I really hate having to browse through search results that are not sorted by > date. > > ---- > Dale > > "Steve Rindsberg" wrote: > > > If you're viewing this in your web browser, you're missing out. > > > Because of a problem in the web forum software, many of the messages > > (including a large percentage of the answers to your questions) don't appear > > here. > > > To see ALL the questions and answers, click here or copy and paste this url > > into your browser: > > > news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.powerpoint > > > If that doesn't work, try visit this page for other options: > > > The PowerPoint Newsgroup > >http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00275.htm > >
From: Steve Rindsberg on 9 Dec 2009 21:54 In article <5b9ff6ee-8e11-4da7-9d28- 64a145ab758c(a)h40g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Mel wrote: > FWIW, I've been using Google Groups for years and have been happy with > it for the most part. (I followed it over from when it was Deja-news > and Google improved it a lot.) I mainly like the ability to search. > But I liked the immediacy of postings with seeing the Usenet group > directly with a browser such as Outlook express. So, I used one for > searching and the other for reading and posting. But now that AT&T > dropped newshosting <boo!!!>, I can't get it directly. That shouldn't be the case. As far as I know, the ISP I connect to the net through offers nothing in the way of newsgroups. I just connect directly to: msnews.microsoft.com That at least gets you into all of the MS newsgroups. And since that's where the messages are really hosted, you'll get less "latency" than by hitting a news host that replicates messages from here periodically. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/
From: Steve Rindsberg on 11 Dec 2009 13:15
[snipsnip] > > Steve, what newsreader are you using? I dumped mine since loosing > Usenet but formerly had NewsRover. I still have Outlook Express > however. They require an NNTP server, so how are you putting an > address directly in? I use VirtualAccess but used OE before that. As far as I remember, the setup details were fairly similar. For NNTP server, I enter msnews.microsoft.com > FireFox and IE stand still when I enter the > address directly too. Clicking the link starts my web browser, which > does no good, of course. If the browser has a built-in newsreader (as Opera does, for example) you can enter news://msnews.microsoft.com and it'll get a list of groups from the server, let you choose which you want to read/subscribe to. Firefox and IE don't have newsreaders built in. If you have a client registered as the default newsreader (ie, news:// protocol handler) on your system, entering the full news://whatever URI will launch the newsreader. Just tried it in Firefox on a different computer, for example, and it pops OE up. Firefox seems to depend on the system defaults; IE lets you specify the newsreader (Tools, Internet Options, Programs, Newsgroups: (pick 'n choose). [Dang. Read your later msg. You've already got it sorted. Hate to see all this deathless (death-dealing?) prose go to waste so I'll leave it anyhow.] ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |