cimex
December 6th 03, 03:59 PM
Dear Oldtimer, you are right, your newsgroups are a mess. The CDO servers
are nearly kaput right now, and have been for far too long.
If you switch to Outlook Express, you will easily be able to do searches,
highlighting, deletion, fonts, and all kinds of other civilized things. Get
set up today:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx
"follow through there to Outlook Express and its TELL ME HOW, to get to a
comprehensive tutorial. "
"Bruce Chambers" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings --
>
> The Usenet is still available, although there does seem to be some
> problem with Microsoft's Community CDO web-based access. Fortunately,
> the web-based site is arguably the worst possible way to access
> Usenet, so it's unavailability is no great loss. The news groups are
> all (well, all that I've checked -- there are many thousands of them,
> after all) still functioning.
>
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
> --
> Help us help you:
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
> having both at once. -- RAH
>
>
> "Oldtimer new to Windows" > wrote in message
> ...
> > The system has been down since 8 PM PST.
> >
>
>
are nearly kaput right now, and have been for far too long.
If you switch to Outlook Express, you will easily be able to do searches,
highlighting, deletion, fonts, and all kinds of other civilized things. Get
set up today:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx
"follow through there to Outlook Express and its TELL ME HOW, to get to a
comprehensive tutorial. "
"Bruce Chambers" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings --
>
> The Usenet is still available, although there does seem to be some
> problem with Microsoft's Community CDO web-based access. Fortunately,
> the web-based site is arguably the worst possible way to access
> Usenet, so it's unavailability is no great loss. The news groups are
> all (well, all that I've checked -- there are many thousands of them,
> after all) still functioning.
>
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
> --
> Help us help you:
> http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
> having both at once. -- RAH
>
>
> "Oldtimer new to Windows" > wrote in message
> ...
> > The system has been down since 8 PM PST.
> >
>
>