Newsgroup in Outlook XP

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Sherman H.

Is there any way that I can bring up Newsgroup in Outlook XP? Do I need a
special plug-in?
 
I can't think of any reason why.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Thomas Shannon said:
Though it should be.
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Information off of the Usenet is a major source of information. The
existence of this group proves that. A personal 'information' manager
should be equipted to handle Usenet news as well as email.

Its not as imprtant as Email, of course, but IMO it is important
enough to demand integration with Outlook. Meaning better integration
than what offered with OE. For instance, you should to be able to
drag and drop a news article into an Outlook folder for storage.
Making news a part of Outlook would do that. As it is now I have to
save the file, then go to Outlook, find the file, and imbed it as an
attachment into a post. Even then, you can only view it as a text
file. And copy and paste is inadequate if you want to save and
interpret the headers. I should be able to double click on a shortcut
of news message in any Outlook folder and view it in a message format
just like an email.

Tom S.
 
Most Outlook users do not want or need news reading capabilities added
Outlook's functions. There is an abundant supply of news readers already. If
you have a need to save newsgroup posts in your email program, there is a
much simpler way to do what you want. In OE save the posts you want to a
Folder, then import that Folder to a similar folder in Outlook.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Thomas Shannon said:
I can't think of any reason why.
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Thomas Shannon said:
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:49:09 -0500, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"

Outlook is not a news reader.

Though it should be.
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Information off of the Usenet is a major source of information. The
existence of this group proves that. A personal 'information' manager
should be equipted to handle Usenet news as well as email.

Its not as imprtant as Email, of course, but IMO it is important
enough to demand integration with Outlook. Meaning better integration
than what offered with OE. For instance, you should to be able to
drag and drop a news article into an Outlook folder for storage.
Making news a part of Outlook would do that. As it is now I have to
save the file, then go to Outlook, find the file, and imbed it as an
attachment into a post. Even then, you can only view it as a text
file. And copy and paste is inadequate if you want to save and
interpret the headers. I should be able to double click on a shortcut
of news message in any Outlook folder and view it in a message format
just like an email.

Tom S.
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Russ Valentine said:
Most Outlook users do not want or need news reading capabilities added
Outlook's functions.
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And yet here we all are.
In OE save the posts you want to a
Folder, then import that Folder to a similar folder in Outlook.
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This works really well. Very helpful, indeed. Thanks.

Tom S.
 
I agree that many standalone Outlook users like the idea of doing email and
news all in one program. That still comprises a minority of Outlook users,
however. Most users of Outlook use it a client to Exchange Server, most of
which are hosted by enterprise corporations who would just as soon not have
their employees distracted by the presence of a news reader every time they
launch their communications software.
 
Russ Valentine said:
I agree that many standalone Outlook users like the idea of doing email and
news all in one program. That still comprises a minority of Outlook users,
however. Most users of Outlook use it a client to Exchange Server, most of
which are hosted by enterprise corporations who would just as soon not have
their employees distracted by the presence of a news reader every time they
launch their communications software.
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I guess I can understand that. I also guess I owe you an apology. This
import/export thing has opened a whole new horizon. There's allot of
integration I've been missing here. I'd still personally rather have it in
Outlook but this is really much better than I thought.

Thanks, again.

Tom S.
 
Russ Valentine said:
I agree that many standalone Outlook users like the idea of doing
email and news all in one program. That still comprises a minority of
Outlook users, however. Most users of Outlook use it a client to
Exchange Server, most of which are hosted by enterprise corporations
who would just as soon not have their employees distracted by the
presence of a news reader every time they launch their communications
software.
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Hmmm. I would strongly disagree with the idea the Outlook users are
primarily corporate types who connect via Exchange. Of the 20 or so OL
users I know, 2 use Exchange. The rest use it stand-alone - most at
home.

Of course, MS seems to have abandoned this type of user when they
removed some very useful features in their upgrades (ie. Netfolders gone
from anything since OL2000).


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Just stating the facts. A sample size of 20 is anecdote, not a valid
statistic. The standalone market is growing slowly but has never exceeded
the number of Enterprise licenses.
This debate has been going on since Outlook was released, but is moot. There
are no plans to make Outlook a news reader.
 
I don't want/need Outlook to do Newsgroup stuff. I use Mozilla's
newsreader. I would use OE if I didn't like Mozilla better.

I do want to point out so that you can get on with it, you can get
Newsgator (www.newsgator) for RSS and Newsgroup feeds if you really want
Outlook to do NG. Works so that NG feeds are just like I think you
want. I used it for 10 minutes for NG's and stopped. Specialty NG
readers much better. but you can do it if you want.

(I do like Newsgator for RSS feeds, though).

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
Chris Barnes said:
Hmmm. I would strongly disagree with the idea the Outlook users are
primarily corporate types who connect via Exchange.
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I think this is where allot of the money is, though.

I don't doubt that this is an attitude among corporate buyers. I object to
the idea that Usenet news is an unnecessary distraction, particularly if you
have a corporate news where only groups like this one are available. But I
don't doubt that the idea is prevalent among those who make the decisions.

As a potential compromise, since most of these companies regulate the
installation and use of their software fairly tightly, I see no reason why a
newsreader couldn't be an optional component. But in truth, the integration
with OE is better than I thought so maybe its a moot point.

Tom S.
 
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