1. There are GPOs and Registry entries to disable OE, I know, my agency
uses them.
2. Why include an option to disable a built in function?. Having 2
programs for separate functions makes sense from a coding standpoint.
3. RSS feeds can be disabled by the same GPOs and registry entries, as well
as content filtering programs such as WebSense, used widely by corporations
to disable browsing "unseemly" sites. My agency uses it and it is very
successful.
4. OE is disabled from every Corporate installation I have seen - it is an
easy thing to do and most corps disable OE. News group - gone!
Microsoft will probably never include news groups when there is a perfectly
viable option in Outlook Express. Why have 2 programs that perform the same
function? Makes no sense and to diable it from OE would mean that most
Windows - not Office - users would have a crippled version of OE.
Get over it - it has been asked for and begged for by consumers for many
years and it has not shown up yet. It will not show up in the next version,
and, I hope in all versions after that.
If you are so dead set on using news groups in Outlook, then get a third
party add-in for no or low cost. Suggestions have already been made.
Microsoft will not change their business model for consumers who represent a
tiny fraction of Outlook users.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, exciter asked:
| is it so difficult to add a feature which would disable subscription
| to newsgroups?
| If one can control acess to sex sites on int explorer, it should also
| be possible
| to moderate outlook for newsgroup subscriptions.
| the possibility to acess the sex newsgroups does not sound a valid
| argument to make outlook stay away from newsgroups.
| There are rss sites which provide sexuality explicit content too...
| Then microsoft should just add privacy options for moderators, thats
| all.
|
| One day ms will combine oe and outlook. This will happen sooner or
| later. It is just illogical to have 2 programs doing similar things,
| which could be easily merged.
|
| Moreover, one can also install oe to browse sex newsgroups aside
| outlook... if there is a way the company can control the installation
| of oe, then there should be a feature in outlook preventing acess to
| newsgroups, if outlook
| will ever support newsgroups.