Lost OE account info for Microsoft News

[Elliott Alterman]

Somehow the account info for the Microsoft News server disappeared from OE.

Can anyone remind me of the info necessary to re-establish the account.

TIA

Elliott

[David A. Spicer]

The server is msnews.microsoft.com

"Elliott Alterman" > wrote in message
news:Fy05b.21156$Go4.7011@lakeread01...
> Somehow the account info for the Microsoft News server disappeared from
OE.
>
> Can anyone remind me of the info necessary to re-establish the account.
>
> TIA
>
> Elliott
>
>

[Sharon F]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:03:33 -0400, Elliott Alterman wrote:

> Somehow the account info for the Microsoft News server disappeared from OE.
>
> Can anyone remind me of the info necessary to re-establish the account.
>
> TIA
>
> Elliott

News account: the name you want displayed in OE to designate the server
Server: msnews.microsoft.com
Port: 119
Do not check "Server requires me to log on"
Do not check the "Secure Password Authentication" box.
User/Password: not needed

Name and email: Enter what you want displayed in the main headers. Email
address has to be in proper form @xxxxxx.xxx but can be munged to protect
against spambots trolling for email addresses

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User

[R. C. White]

Hi, Elliott.

Just click here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers

That should bring you right back here. Along the way, it will recreate the
News Account for you. Of course, you may want to "tweak" the settings for
name, etc., but the Server tab should be filled in properly. Then all you
need do is click Newsgroups and subscribe to those you want. ;<)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP

"Elliott Alterman" > wrote in message
news:Fy05b.21156$Go4.7011@lakeread01...
> Somehow the account info for the Microsoft News server disappeared from
OE.
>
> Can anyone remind me of the info necessary to re-establish the account.
>
> TIA
>
> Elliott