E-mail Newsgroup Query

[Barry Karas]

10:24 AM 6/19/2007

I have a question about e-mail. Which newsgroup would I use?

Many obviously titled newsgroups are nothing more than collections of
commercial messages. That is why I am asking.

Thank you,

Barry Karas

 

[mikeyhsd]

ask away, there is no LAW/RULE anywhere that requires you to use any specific news group.
al that exists is recommendations/suggestions that you use a group pertaining to your topic.

for mail that would be outlook express or outlook depending on your email client.




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10:24 AM 6/19/2007

I have a question about e-mail. Which newsgroup would I use?

Many obviously titled newsgroups are nothing more than collections of
commercial messages. That is why I am asking.

Thank you,

Barry Karas

 

[Pegasus]

10:24 AM 6/19/2007

I have a question about e-mail. Which newsgroup would I use?

Many obviously titled newsgroups are nothing more than collections of
commercial messages. That is why I am asking.

Not obvious at all. While there is a small amount of spam
in Microsoft newsgroups, people pounce on it very quickly
and flag it for the rubbish it is.

You should post your email question in the appropriate
forum: In an OE newsgroup if you use OE, in an Outlook
newsgroup if you use Outlook etc. etc.

 

[Gordon]

10:24 AM 6/19/2007

I have a question about e-mail.

Actual email itself, or a specific Email client?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

10:24 AM 6/19/2007

I have a question about e-mail. Which newsgroup would I use?

Many obviously titled newsgroups are nothing more than collections of
commercial messages. That is why I am asking.

Normally you should ask your question in a newsgroup dedicated to
support for the E-mail client you use--Outlook, Outlook Express,
Eudora, Pegasus, etc.

 

[PA Bear]

As you post here using OE...

OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general

 

[Bruce Chambers]

10:24 AM 6/19/2007

I have a question about e-mail. Which newsgroup would I use?

Many obviously titled newsgroups are nothing more than collections of
commercial messages. That is why I am asking.

For the best chances of getting a useful response, post the question in
a newsgroup dedicated to the specific application you use for email.


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[Plato]

I have a question about e-mail. Which newsgroup would I use?

USEnet is NOT for email.

 

[Tim Slattery]

USEnet is NOT for email.

Well, no, Usenet and email are two different things. But there are
newsgroups that discuss various email clients , sendmail, other
various email server programs. There's an entire comp.mail.* hierarchy
that includes these groups:

comp.mail
comp.mail.elm
comp.mail.eudora
comp.mail.eudora.mac
comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows
comp.mail.headers
comp.mail.imap
comp.mail.list-admin.policy
comp.mail.list-admin.software
comp.mail.maps
comp.mail.mh
comp.mail.mime
comp.mail.misc
comp.mail.multi-media
comp.mail.mush
comp.mail.mutt
comp.mail.pegasus-mail.misc
comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows
comp.mail.pine
comp.mail.sendmail
comp.mail.smail
comp.mail.uucp
comp.mail.zmail

 

[Barry Karas]

Not obvious at all. While there is a small amount of spam

in Microsoft newsgroups, people pounce on it very quickly
and flag it for the rubbish it is.

So, I should stick with Microsoft newsgroups if I want to avoid spam?

Barry Karas
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

So, I should stick with Microsoft newsgroups if I want to avoid spam?

No, not at all necessary. It's only *some* non-Microsoft newsgroups
that are mostly spam. Just choose which ones you use carefully. If
there's more spam in one that you are willing to accept, stop using
it.

Also, you are posting here using what appears to be your real E-mail
address. That's not a great idea, since it subjects you to spambots
which harvest E-mail addresses in newsgroups and add them to the list
of people they send E-mail spam to.