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I access this news group thorough "news.east.earthlink.net", but I have
someone who wants to access this newsgroup but does not have EarthLink as
their ISP. Is there any way that this news group can be accessed if
EarthLink is not the ISP?
 
Most all the ISP's have news server. These groups (most of them) are on all
the newsserver out there.

Actually most ISP don't run their own,...they subscribe to a newserver
service and then just set their domain name to the server there subscription
tells them to use. So Earthlink's "news.east.earthlink.net" and Joe's
Communication's "news.joescomm.net" may actually be the very same server if
they both use the same subscription usenet service.

I used to remember what service my ISP used and I could change the name to
the actual FQDN of the subscrition service's news server and it worked.
 
I understand exactly what you are saying but I called the ISP that the other
person uses (bnsi.net) and they said that they do not have any news servers.
Can you help me any further?

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Neil


Phillip Windell said:
Most all the ISP's have news server. These groups (most of them) are on
all the newsserver out there.

Actually most ISP don't run their own,...they subscribe to a newserver
service and then just set their domain name to the server there
subscription tells them to use. So Earthlink's "news.east.earthlink.net"
and Joe's Communication's "news.joescomm.net" may actually be the very
same server if they both use the same subscription usenet service.

I used to remember what service my ISP used and I could change the name to
the actual FQDN of the subscrition service's news server and it worked.

--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

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I access this news group thorough "news.east.earthlink.net", but I have
someone who wants to access this newsgroup but does not have EarthLink as
their ISP. Is there any way that this news group can be accessed if
EarthLink is not the ISP?
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Is there any way that this news group can be accessed if
EarthLink is not the ISP?
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Almost certainly. Most ISP's offer the equivalent Usenet access. Even
if they don't, you could subscribe to a premium provider for as little
as $7 a month (http://www.giganews.com)

This group is also accessible through http://groups.google.com and I
believe Microsoft offers web based access; as well and a news sever
that just carries the microsoft.public.* hierarchy. (Perhaps the MVP's
could chime in with the specifics)

A_C
 
What is the difference between the news group and Usenet Access (I assume
Usenet is a discussion group on the web?).
 
Yes, you can use the msnews.microsoft.com server.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Remove ABCD from Email address to reply said:
I access this news group thorough "news.east.earthlink.net", but I
have someone who wants to access this newsgroup but does not have
EarthLink as their ISP. Is there any way that this news group can be
accessed if EarthLink is not the ISP?
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The best way, no matter what ISP you have, is to use Microsoft's own NNTP
server: msnews.microsoft.com. This group is, for example,
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook
 
Remove ABCD from Email address to reply said:
What is the difference between the news group and Usenet Access (I
assume Usenet is a discussion group on the web?).
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Usenet is the complete collection of all newsgroups.
 
Brian,

Thanks that worked fine for "microsoft.public.outlook" but I have several
other microsoft news groups which do not show up in the list of "all" when I
look at that server. For example "microsoft.public.outlook.bcm",
"microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring", and
"microsoft.public.outlook.contacts" do not show up. There are others that
also do not show up, am I just doing something wrong or how can I find them?

Thanks
 
Remove ABCD from Email address to reply said:
Brian,

Thanks that worked fine for "microsoft.public.outlook" but I have several
other microsoft news groups which do not show up in the list of "all" when
I look at that server. For example "microsoft.public.outlook.bcm",
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That's certainly here on my "msnews.microsoft.com". Have you tried
refreshing the list of groups?
 
Remove ABCD from Email address to reply said:
Thanks that worked fine for "microsoft.public.outlook" but I have
several other microsoft news groups which do not show up in the list
of "all" when I look at that server. For example
"microsoft.public.outlook.bcm",
"microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring", and
"microsoft.public.outlook.contacts" do not show up. There are
others that also do not show up, am I just doing something wrong or
how can I find them?
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Add a new News account to Outlook Express (Tools>Accounts, News tab) and
specify "msnews.microsoft.com" as the server. Use just about anything else
you want for the other settings.
 
Sorry it took me so long to answer but I have been busy.

Thanks, refreshing did the trick.
 
Sorry it took me so long to answer but I have been busy.

Refreshing the list did the job. Thanks for the help.
 
How do I get a complete list of the Usenet groups available?
 
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How do I get a complete list of the Usenet groups available?
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There's no way to get all Usenet newsgroups, only the newsgroups offered by
the server you're using. Some servers carry the majority of newsgroups,
some carre a limited set. msnews.microsft.com, for example, carries only
the Microsoft newsgroups. Some servers are free, some are by subscription.
Your ISP (Earthlink) may or may not have a newsserver. Ask them. If they
don't Google for "free (news OR nntp) server"
 
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