From: Greg Russell on 27 Jul 2010 02:51 In news:#v$W4WVLLHA.5680(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl, PA Bear [MS MVP] <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> typed: > WinXP General is the only NG I'm still monitoring but it'll be > dropped from the MS newsserver by October 1st, too. .... so get a *real* newsserver such as http://individual.net that can be accessed from any NNTP client such as OE.
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 27 Jul 2010 09:28 Greg Russell wrote: >> WinXP General is the only NG I'm still monitoring but it'll be >> dropped from the MS newsserver by October 1st, too. > > ... so get a *real* newsserver such as http://individual.net that can be > accessed from any NNTP client such as OE. I didn't say I'd not be able to access the NG, did I? No, thanks, too much spam once the MS filters are no longer present.
From: Greg Russell on 27 Jul 2010 11:11
In news:#IjraBZLLHA.5668(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl, PA Bear [MS MVP] <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> typed: >>> WinXP General is the only NG I'm still monitoring but it'll be >>> dropped from the MS newsserver by October 1st, too. >> >> ... so get a *real* newsserver such as http://individual.net that >> can be accessed from any NNTP client such as OE. > > I didn't say I'd not be able to access the NG, did I? > > No, thanks, too much spam once the MS filters are no longer present. Message -> Block Sender works for everybody else in OE; why aren't you able to use it? Or get a *real* newsreader such as http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/ which allows relative scoring for fine-grained filtering according to your own criteria. |