Hi Arne,
It is a public news group, no login required.
If your local news server does not subscribe to the group, you can always
go to the original server for this group and all other official
microsoft-related groups at
msnews.microsoft.com
And yes, it is a news group, located on Usenet (nntp) so you need a news
reader. You can always use Internet Explorer which launches Outlook
Express when you enter this in the IE address field
nntp://msnews.microsoft.com
You may be able to access the news groups through a web based reader from
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx
though a dedicated news reader is far better.
Then again, seeing as you already posted to the C# group, I guess you have
solved the problem.