Microsoft Communities? News Groups

When I first started using Vista Windows Mail, I think I had (in the
left-hand pane of Windows Mail) "Local Folders" for mail and "Usenet News"
and "Microsoft Communities" for news groups. I'm not sure what the Microsoft
group was called but I deleted it as I thought I probably would never use
it. Is there a way to get it back as I am curious to see what was available
there?

paste this link into your browser's address window:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/
then key enter or click "go" and WinMail will open the communities.
You may want to munge your email address. Here's more info:
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm

"Dennis Duke" <> wrote in message
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> When I first started using Vista Windows Mail, I think I had (in the left-hand
> pane of Windows Mail) "Local Folders" for mail and "Usenet News" and
> "Microsoft Communities" for news groups. I'm not sure what the Microsoft group
> was called but I deleted it as I thought I probably would never use it. Is
> there a way to get it back as I am curious to see what was available there?

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...s/default.mspx
Head on over to the following page at Microsoft's website on how to
configure your newsreader to read Microsoft's Public Newsgroups:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...roupsetup.mspx
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Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Dennis Duke" <> wrote in message
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> When I first started using Vista Windows Mail, I think I had (in the
> left-hand pane of Windows Mail) "Local Folders" for mail and "Usenet News"
> and "Microsoft Communities" for news groups. I'm not sure what the
> Microsoft group was called but I deleted it as I thought I probably would
> never use it. Is there a way to get it back as I am curious to see what
> was available there?

"Dennis Duke" <> wrote in message
news:479549ac$0$2142$...
> When I first started using Vista Windows Mail, I think I had (in the
> left-hand pane of Windows Mail) "Local Folders" for mail and "Usenet News"
> and "Microsoft Communities" for news groups. I'm not sure what the
> Microsoft group was called but I deleted it as I thought I probably would
> never use it. Is there a way to get it back as I am curious to see what
> was available there?

Rick Rogers article was great. Thanks for the help.

"Dennis Duke" <> wrote in message
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> When I first started using Vista Windows Mail, I think I had (in the
> left-hand pane of Windows Mail) "Local Folders" for mail and "Usenet News"
> and "Microsoft Communities" for news groups. I'm not sure what the
> Microsoft group was called but I deleted it as I thought I probably would
> never use it. Is there a way to get it back as I am curious to see what
> was available there?


Here is there, amongst many other places.

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"Dennis Duke" <> wrote in message
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> "Michael Jennings" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> "Dennis Duke" <> wrote in message
>> news:479549ac$0$2142$...
>>> When I first started using Vista Windows Mail, I think I had (in the
>>> left-hand pane of Windows Mail) "Local Folders" for mail and "Usenet News"
>>> and "Microsoft Communities" for news groups. I'm not sure what the Microsoft
>>> group was called but I deleted it as I thought I probably would never use
>>> it. Is there a way to get it back as I am curious to see what was available
>>> there?
>>
>> paste this link into your browser's address window:
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com/
>> then key enter or click "go" and WinMail will open the communities.
>> You may want to munge your email address. Here's more info:
>> http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
>
> Rick Rogers article was great. Thanks for the help.

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