I don't know what you can do with the Microsoft web interface to these
groups, which has got to be the worst way to access the groups. If you use
an NNTP newsreader (Outlook Express for example), you can easily set up a
filter to highlight your own posts, you can mark posts you're interested in
following, you can search by the "From" field, and you can filter threads in
which you've participated.
yes to outlook express for this. no to windows mail in vista. the main reason
(but there are many) i don't use vista is because they never fixed a bug in
windows mail that highlights watched messages.
in oe, if someone replies to one of my posts, i have set to highlight the post.
the newsgroup name in the folders pane is also highlighted to alert me.
this does not work in windows mail and i have to search to see if there have
been replies. reported this bug a year and a half before vista was released and
they chose not to fix it. the same bug exists in windows live mail.
Netscape worked better with newsgroups than Outlook Express. I stopped using
Netscape 4.7(??) a long time ago; it wasn't worth keeping the dinosaur
around just for newsgroups.
FireFox doesn't do newsgroups, but there's a version of the Mozilla browser
called SeaMonkey that does newsgroups. I tried it exactly once, but never
got any momentum. However, if anyone is stuck with Vista and Windows mail,
perhaps they'll see this and try SeaMonkey.
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