Newsgroups
Posted by admin on Jan 31st, 2007
I have never really used the discussion groups outside of IE, this is a very basic question do I have to have a pop email address to reply to a posting from Windows Mail, who do I reply to (reply of group reply)? And what is a Newsgroup account and should I be using this to reply?
Feb 3rd, 2007 at 04:32 pm
Kevin Gal wrote:Using the web interface to read these newsgroups iss the slowest, clunkiest, most errorprone method there is. Do yourself a favor and switch to a newsreader, such as Windows Mail, which comes with Windows Vista. See michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm Although that talks about Outllok Express, it's essentially the same in Windows mail. Ken Blake Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
Feb 5th, 2007 at 02:12 pm
"Kevin Gal" You do not need a POP3 email address to use news. You should always Reply to Group. Using just Plain Reply replies to the sender and you will find that many, many posters use false addresses, which is a good idea if you don't like spam. A useful fake email address would be KevinGal@fake.invalid .. Frank Saunders, MSMVP OE/WM fjsmjs.com Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email.
Feb 10th, 2007 at 01:46 am
Frank, where do you write the "false address" (i,e., where do you set it, or in which dialog box do you write it, so the false address appears?) "Frank Saunders, MSMVP OE/WM"
Feb 10th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
If you're using the Microsoft Communities. Tools | Accounts select the account and click Properties. Put it in the Enail field.If you're setting up a different server it should ask you as you set it up, but it goes in the same place."Octavio"