Changing your email address

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This is not a Windows XP message, but in order to use this newsgroup I find I
have to sign up for Microsoft Passport. Well I did that long ago. But
yesterday I changed my email address. To receive responses to messages on
this newsgroup I had, naturally, to notify the system to enable me to receive
replies. It has taken me a whole day to get the Microsoft system to oblige
me. What a hassle. Well, I think it's done now, but I think Microsoft should
look at how The New York Times, to which I subscribe online, does it. And
many other sites that I use. Amazon made it smple, for instance.

Thank you for reading my rant. I don't usually do this, but maybe someone at
MS (can I hope) will read this and think about rationalising their service in
this area.
 
I've tried using Outlook Express. Although I have considerable experience in
using computers, I find the OE very difficult.
 
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Tonyo UK said:
This is not a Windows XP message, but in order to use this newsgroup
I find I have to sign up for Microsoft Passport. Well I did that long
ago. But yesterday I changed my email address. To receive responses
to messages on this newsgroup I had, naturally, to notify the system
to enable me to receive replies. It has taken me a whole day to get
the Microsoft system to oblige me. What a hassle. Well, I think it's
done now, but I think Microsoft should look at how The New York
Times, to which I subscribe online, does it. And many other sites
that I use. Amazon made it smple, for instance.

Thank you for reading my rant. I don't usually do this, but maybe
someone at MS (can I hope) will read this and think about
rationalising their service in this area.
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The better option would be to stop using the clunky Web interface to the
groups entirely, and use a news client instead. The NNTP server is
news.microsoft.com and you can subscribe to as many groups as you like. It
is *much* much better overall....
 
Farmom said:
I am curious how you sign up for newsgroups?
Susan
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For Microsoft newsgroups, open Outlook
Express/Tools/Account/Add/Newsgroups and follow the Wizard. Where it
asks you for a server, put in msnews.microsoft.com

For other newsgroups, you have to have another news server. Ask your
Internet Service Provider if they offer this service.

Alias
 
--Alias-- said:
For Microsoft newsgroups, open Outlook
Express/Tools/Account/Add/Newsgroups and follow the Wizard. Where it
asks you for a server, put in msnews.microsoft.com

For other newsgroups, you have to have another news server. Ask your
Internet Service Provider if they offer this service.
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Yes, but two additions to the above:

1. Outlook Express can handle multiple news servers with ease, so using the
Microsoft server doesn't preclude the use of another.

2. Even if your ISP doesn't provide a news server, there are others publicly
available, either free or for a small monthly charge. Google will provide
several choices.

Also there are good, detailed instructions here:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

 
This is not a Windows XP message, but in order to use this newsgroup I
find I
have to sign up for Microsoft Passport. Well I did that long ago. But
yesterday I changed my email address. To receive responses to messages on
this newsgroup I had, naturally, to notify the system to enable me to
receive
replies. It has taken me a whole day to get the Microsoft system to oblige
me. What a hassle. Well, I think it's done now, but I think Microsoft
should
look at how The New York Times, to which I subscribe online, does it. And
many other sites that I use. Amazon made it smple, for instance.
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It's amazing how many people get on to rant and rave about something that
simply isn't true, and make a fool of themselves. A passport account is NOT
required to use this newsgroup, but is simply one method that may be used.
In fact it isn't even necessary to use a REAL emal address to access this
newsgroup. Of course, if your unable to figure out how to use a newsreader
instead of the lame browser interface to access the newsgroup, your probably
not smart tenough to figure out how to use the newsgroup without a passport.
Thank you for reading my rant. I don't usually do this, but maybe someone
at
MS (can I hope) will read this and think about rationalising their service
in
this area.
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Better to sit quietly and have people think you're a fool, than to open your
mouth and remove all doubt.
 
Tonyo said:
This is not a Windows XP message, but in order to use this newsgroup I find I
have to sign up for Microsoft Passport. Well I did that long ago. But
yesterday I changed my email address. To receive responses to messages on
this newsgroup I had, naturally, to notify the system to enable me to receive
replies. It has taken me a whole day to get the Microsoft system to oblige
me. What a hassle. Well, I think it's done now, but I think Microsoft should
look at how The New York Times, to which I subscribe online, does it. And
many other sites that I use. Amazon made it smple, for instance.

Thank you for reading my rant. I don't usually do this, but maybe someone at
MS (can I hope) will read this and think about rationalising their service in
this area.
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Why are you putting yourself through all this grief? Accessing this
newsgroup through the web interface is awful. Use a newsreader and
access it directly through the MS server. XP comes with outlook
express. Here is a link for info on how to set it up to read
newsgroups: http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

There are many resources available to help you with any OE issues you
might have. Besides OE there is a variety of other newsreaders. Just
get away from the web interface.
 
Okay if you want to use outlook express , I always use this so so simple
method to do so but , Before doing any ? Create a new email account with
outlook express and just use it for your newsgroups , then go to this
website and just click on the underline of which ever group you want and it
will do all the set up for you , here the website , Though after its set up
? Just go into your email account and change the email address section to a
non email address , It doesn't really matter what you decide to make it

http://aumha.org/support.htm

.......
 
MoonDog said:
Okay if you want to use outlook express , I always use this so so
simple method to do so but , Before doing any ? Create a new email
account with outlook express and just use it for your newsgroups ,
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Entirely unnecessary. No E-mail account account is needed for newsgroups,
regardless of whether you use Outlook Express or any other news reader.

You need to provide a return E-mail address, but there's no requirement that
it be an actual account at all, and it's generally a good idea not to use a
real address, which tends to get gathered by spambots. . If you look at my
return address here, it should be obvious that it's not at all real.
 
MoonDog said:
I create a new account so that it doesn't interfere with my real
accounts
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That's fine. You may do whatever you like. But as I pointed out, it's
entirely unnecessary, and poor advice to give to others. *No* E-mail
account, real or otherwise, is required to use Outlook Express for
newsgroups. All that's needed is a *News* account. And that will in no way
interfere with your real E-mail account.
 
That's fine. You may do whatever you like. But as I pointed out, it's
entirely unnecessary, and poor advice to give to others. *No* E-mail
account, real or otherwise, is required to use Outlook Express for
newsgroups.
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Not quite true Ken - you cannot post through news.individual.net without
using some sort of email address as posts are rejected if you don't.
 
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Gordon said:
Not quite true Ken - you cannot post through news.individual.net
without using some sort of email address as posts are rejected if you
don't.
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That isn't related to OE, specifically. I use OE for my newsreader and
msnews.microsoft.com as my NNTP server...no authentication is required, and
I have no e-mail accounts set up in OE.
 
Lanwench said:
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That isn't related to OE, specifically. I use OE for my newsreader and
msnews.microsoft.com as my NNTP server...no authentication is required, and
I have no e-mail accounts set up in OE.
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You don't need one set up in OE with news.individual.net either. You do
have to have a valid domain as a part of your email in the NEWS account.
It does not have to be a valid email account, just a valid domain.

Alias
 
Gordon said:
Not quite true Ken - you cannot post through news.individual.net
without using some sort of email address as posts are rejected if you
don't.
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Sorry to disagree, but it is quite true. Yes, you may need a return address
(and I pointed out earlier in the thread that you can use a false one). But
his point was (and I quote from an earlier message in the thread) "Create a
new email account with outlook express and just use it for your newsgroups."
You do *not* have to create an E-mail account to use Outlook Express for
newsgroups. A return E-mail address and an E-mail account are two very
different things.
 
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