Newsgroups in Outlook 2003

[Guest]

I know this sounds stupid, but I cannot find out how to get my newsgroups integrated with Office 2003

Can anyone send me the directions [ eg. files ->...]?

Thanks

//Andreas

 

[Mercury]

You cannot. Newsgroups require Outlook Express to read.

 

[Guest]

Is that a new gizmo they have put into the package?
I have done it with Office 2000 before.

 

[Srikanth]

-----Original Message-----
I know this sounds stupid, but I cannot find out how to

get my newsgroups integrated with Office 2003.

Can anyone send me the directions [ eg. files ->...]??

Thanks!

//Andreas
.

Right Click on Outlook 2003 toolbar & Customize.
Click "Command" tab & then "Go" category - there
is "News" command in right hand side. Drag it to View
menubar. Thats it - configure server and use it

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook has always used a third party program or Outlook Express for news.
It has never (and hopefully never will) provided newsgroups natively.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Andreas asked:

| Is that a new gizmo they have put into the package??
| I have done it with Office 2000 before.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Wrong. Outlook is not, never has been, and most likely never will be a news
reader. It has always invoked a news reader, OE by default.

 

[Don Caton]

Milly:

Why ("hopefully never will")?

 

[Steven M (remove cola to reply)]

Milly:

Why ("hopefully never will")?

Not sure what Don means, but mail is mail and news is news and it's
hard for one program do both properly. Using OE for news is like
using a hammer to drive screws, IMO.

 

[Don Caton]

Steven:

What I was asking Millie was why she hopes Outlook "hopefully never
will" have newsgroup support.

Mail and news have far more similarities than differences. Both have
senders, recipients, a subject, a body, attachments, conversation
threads, etc. The only real difference is that mail is private and news
is (generally) public. The similarities extend all the way down to the
protocol level; SMTP and NNTP have numerous things in common.

Mail, calendars and task lists have little in common, yet Outlook
handles all of them fairly well within the same program so why not news?
I'm not commenting one way or another on OE's particular
implementation, just wondering why the objection to Outlook having news
support.