Greetings Eugene,
MSN shut down its public usenet server (for accessing all of usenet, obviously these groups
are still up) about 6 years ago. There aren't any settings to put in.
msnews.microsoft.com will get you the Microsoft ones though.
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"ChemistrySet" <> wrote in message
news: ps.com...
> What are the settings to configure Outlook Express for MSN: News
> Groups?
>
> For Mail, the HTTP works:
> http://oe.msn.msnmail.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/hmdata -- after several uses
> it works pretty well for MSN mail, but does not accept one of my
> Hotmail accounts.
>
>
> What does one use for News? Or other miscellaneous settings -- the MSN
> Outlook Express configuration tool did not work at all, the manual
> configuration instructions were missing, and there were no instructions
> in the Help 'Search' engine.
>
> Simple, direct information like this one expects to be available
> up-front at the MSN Member Center, at the least -- why not? There is
> so much palaver and so little real meat, unless I have missed something
> -- like an engineering manual written by public relations people
> instead of by engineers; it seems more focused on getting users to
> "feel" helped rather than actually to solve problems. (Surely it must
> be self-evident that successfully & succinctly to resolve problems is
> prerequisite to "feeling helped".) Either I or Miscrosoft is missing
> the boat, and I have exhausted my means to find out, without avail.
>
> Thanks for the aid, somebody kind enough to render it -- GOD Bless!
>
> Eugene, Oregon
>
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