how to save MS msgs this BB automatically???

[larry]

With AOL, I can make a .LOG file which will grab
everything (usually) I open from a newsgroup.
It appears not to work with the MS Newsgroup lists from
the MS site.
Is there a workaround on this?
Or must I use a MS browser which may have such an option?
Shore is tiring copying all this stuff.....
TIA- Larry

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

try using a newsreader - OE will do) instead of the horrible web access.

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"larry" > wrote in message
...
> With AOL, I can make a .LOG file which will grab
> everything (usually) I open from a newsgroup.
> It appears not to work with the MS Newsgroup lists from
> the MS site.
> Is there a workaround on this?
> Or must I use a MS browser which may have such an option?
> Shore is tiring copying all this stuff.....
> TIA- Larry

[Ally]

"Gordon Burgess-Parker" > wrote:

> try using a newsreader - OE will do) instead of the horrible web
> access.

When I was stuck with AOL, I either had to make do with horrible web
access, or AOL's _horrible_ built-in newsreader. They wouldn't let
anything else speak to their newsservers.

~Ally (glad to be using XNews)

--
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

You could have used news.individual.net - that's not tied to any ISP (unless
you want THOSE binaries) ;-)

--
Google is your Friend
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam:
gordonATgbpcomputingDOTcoDOTuk
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk


"Ally" > wrote in message
4...
> "Gordon Burgess-Parker" > wrote:
>
> > try using a newsreader - OE will do) instead of the horrible web
> > access.
>
> When I was stuck with AOL, I either had to make do with horrible web
> access, or AOL's _horrible_ built-in newsreader. They wouldn't let
> anything else speak to their newsservers.
>
> ~Ally (glad to be using XNews)
>
> --
> Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.

[Ally]

I wrote:

> When I was stuck with AOL, I either had to make do with horrible
> web access, or AOL's _horrible_ built-in newsreader. They
> wouldn't let anything else speak to their newsservers.

Ah, okay, so I goofed up. Sorry. I am accessing the MS newsgroups
through my ISP's newsserver, not news.microsoft.com, and was assuming
the original poster did the same with AOL's newsserver (and its non-
standard protocols).

You (original poster) should indeed be able to read the MS newsgroups
using OE (or Agent or XNews or Mozilla or whatever else you feel like
using).

~Ally
--
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.

[Ally]

"Gordon Burgess-Parker" > wrote:

> You could have used news.individual.net - that's not tied to any
> ISP (unless you want THOSE binaries) ;-)

I had tried a number of free public newsservers back in the day but
they either didn't allow posting or died soon. My current ISP's
newsserver does a very good job, but I'll try to think of
news.individual.net next time I'm suffering from enforced usenet
withdrawal ;)

--
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.