Newsgroups via Outlook Express client

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Sanjeev Johal

I was trying to access Microsoft's Newsgroup
@ "msnews.microsoft.com" and got the following error
message:

Unable to connect to server
Configuration:
Account: msnews.microsoft.com
Server: msnews.microsoft.com
Protocol: NNTP
Port: 119
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 800ccc0e

I've tried substituting the server name with the IP
address and putting in my .NET passport login details but
still failing.

Can anyone please help. Thanking you in advance.
 
Can you ping msnews.microsoft.com and have it resolve to an IP address?
You don't need to put in any login info - it's public.
 
Yes it seems that I can ping and get the following message:

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>ping msnews.microsoft.com

Pinging msnews.microsoft.com [207.46.248.16] with 32 bytes
of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 207.46.248.16:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

When changing the server name to this IP address I now get:

Your 'microsoft.public.windows.outlookexpress5' folder was
not polled for its unread count.
Account: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Server: '207.46.248.16',
Protocol: NNTP, Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error:
10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

Can you help?
 
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