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How do I access news groups other then throught IE?
Missed this in my previous post. Go here for a good tutorial on setting up
Outlook Express as a news reader/writer: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm -- Gene K aa wrote in message ... On w2k I used to OutlookExpress to access news groups. In my XP installation there is IE but no OE. Outlook installed with Office does not allow news account (or it does?). How do I access news groups other then throught IE? |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:04:55 -0500, "*Vanguard*"
do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: ..... snip ..... Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header? ..... snip ..... I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to purchase the full version to get that. -- The Aussie Bomber Carn The Dons!! |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:04:55 -0500, "*Vanguard*"
do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: ..... snip ..... Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header? ..... snip ..... I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to purchase the full version to get that. -- The Aussie Bomber Carn The Dons!! |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:04:55 -0500, "*Vanguard*"
do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: ..... snip ..... Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header? ..... snip ..... I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to purchase the full version to get that. -- The Aussie Bomber Carn The Dons!! |
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"Aussie Bomber"
wrote in : On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:04:55 -0500, "*Vanguard*" do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: ..... snip ..... Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header? ..... snip ..... I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to purchase the full version to get that. Do you have the full version of Agent to check? I just downloaded it. The download is not the free version but is instead the full version which cripples itself after the trial period unless you pay and register it. So when I get some time to scan the current state of my system, install Agent, scan again to check for all changes made by the install (so I can guarantee a complete clean uninstall) then I can check this out myself as long as I don't get too bogged down just trying to use it initially. Just looking for a heads up to know if Agent gives me the ability to search ANY header in a post (to see if it exists or to check for a value or substring after it). -- __________________________________________________ *** Post replies to newsgroup. Share with others. (E-mail: domain = ".com", add "=NEWS=" to Subject) __________________________________________________ |
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"Aussie Bomber"
wrote in : On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:04:55 -0500, "*Vanguard*" do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: ..... snip ..... Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header? ..... snip ..... I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to purchase the full version to get that. Do you have the full version of Agent to check? I just downloaded it. The download is not the free version but is instead the full version which cripples itself after the trial period unless you pay and register it. So when I get some time to scan the current state of my system, install Agent, scan again to check for all changes made by the install (so I can guarantee a complete clean uninstall) then I can check this out myself as long as I don't get too bogged down just trying to use it initially. Just looking for a heads up to know if Agent gives me the ability to search ANY header in a post (to see if it exists or to check for a value or substring after it). -- __________________________________________________ *** Post replies to newsgroup. Share with others. (E-mail: domain = ".com", add "=NEWS=" to Subject) __________________________________________________ |
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"Aussie Bomber"
wrote in : On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:04:55 -0500, "*Vanguard*" do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: ..... snip ..... Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header? ..... snip ..... I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to purchase the full version to get that. Do you have the full version of Agent to check? I just downloaded it. The download is not the free version but is instead the full version which cripples itself after the trial period unless you pay and register it. So when I get some time to scan the current state of my system, install Agent, scan again to check for all changes made by the install (so I can guarantee a complete clean uninstall) then I can check this out myself as long as I don't get too bogged down just trying to use it initially. Just looking for a heads up to know if Agent gives me the ability to search ANY header in a post (to see if it exists or to check for a value or substring after it). -- __________________________________________________ *** Post replies to newsgroup. Share with others. (E-mail: domain = ".com", add "=NEWS=" to Subject) __________________________________________________ |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:48:12 -0500, "*Vanguard*"
do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: "Aussie Bomber" wrote in : On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:04:55 -0500, "*Vanguard*" do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: ..... snip ..... Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header? ..... snip ..... I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to purchase the full version to get that. Do you have the full version of Agent to check? I just downloaded it. The download is not the free version but is instead the full version which cripples itself after the trial period unless you pay and register it. So when I get some time to scan the current state of my system, install Agent, scan again to check for all changes made by the install (so I can guarantee a complete clean uninstall) then I can check this out myself as long as I don't get too bogged down just trying to use it initially. Just looking for a heads up to know if Agent gives me the ability to search ANY header in a post (to see if it exists or to check for a value or substring after it). Well they have their own group. Post there and ask the product experts. alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Cheers, Dave |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:48:12 -0500, "*Vanguard*"
do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: "Aussie Bomber" wrote in : On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:04:55 -0500, "*Vanguard*" do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: ..... snip ..... Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header? ..... snip ..... I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to purchase the full version to get that. Do you have the full version of Agent to check? I just downloaded it. The download is not the free version but is instead the full version which cripples itself after the trial period unless you pay and register it. So when I get some time to scan the current state of my system, install Agent, scan again to check for all changes made by the install (so I can guarantee a complete clean uninstall) then I can check this out myself as long as I don't get too bogged down just trying to use it initially. Just looking for a heads up to know if Agent gives me the ability to search ANY header in a post (to see if it exists or to check for a value or substring after it). Well they have their own group. Post there and ask the product experts. alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Cheers, Dave |
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:48:12 -0500, "*Vanguard*"
do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: "Aussie Bomber" wrote in : On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 04:04:55 -0500, "*Vanguard*" do-not-email@reply-to-group wrote: ..... snip ..... Do you know if Free Agent provides rules that can search ANY header? ..... snip ..... I think there are no rules available in FREE Agent - you need to purchase the full version to get that. Do you have the full version of Agent to check? I just downloaded it. The download is not the free version but is instead the full version which cripples itself after the trial period unless you pay and register it. So when I get some time to scan the current state of my system, install Agent, scan again to check for all changes made by the install (so I can guarantee a complete clean uninstall) then I can check this out myself as long as I don't get too bogged down just trying to use it initially. Just looking for a heads up to know if Agent gives me the ability to search ANY header in a post (to see if it exists or to check for a value or substring after it). Well they have their own group. Post there and ask the product experts. alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Cheers, Dave |
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"davetest"
wrote in : Well they have their own group. Post there and ask the product experts. alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Cannot specify a non-standard port for the POP3 mail server. I go through SpamPal for spam filtering which accepts POP3 connections but I have it configured to monitor for POP3 connects on port 7110, not on the standard port of 110. This is the first e-mail capable client that I have encountered where I cannot specify what port it will use to connect to the POP3 server. This severe deficiency makes Agent completely unusable to me for e-mail. While I had no intention of using Agent as my e-mail client for my non-news accounts, I had expected to use it for my news-related e-mail account (the one published in the Reply-To header in my posts). Guess not! After installing Agent again, which is the 30-day trial version before it cripples itself to the Free version, I remembered why I had previously abandoned this newsreader as incompetent. It will not support multiple news servers. In Outlook Express (and, I think, in Thunderbird) you can define multiple news server to which the NNTP client will connect. This is not possible in Agent. I believe there was a workaround where you use multiple configuration files and specify which one to use in different shortcuts to start Agent, but this means that I have to bother going through this manual setup and I also cannot jump between news servers without having to exit and then reload Agent. No one using Agent over the years has ever expressed that they visit multiple news servers? I got a list of newsgroups from my single news server. Okay, now how do I subscribe to the ones that I visit regularly? Sure I can scroll through the list of 80,000 newsgroups but I have better things to do. When I search on "subscribe" in its help, I get a description of NEWSRC files instead. If I do a search, I have to enter enough of the the newsgroup name to get a single match highlighted in the newsgroup list pane as opposed to OE that shows me progressively all matching newsgroup names as I progressively enter more of a portion of the newsgroup name. I have to use Find Next to scroll through the list of possible matches. Note that Search is disabled until you highlight a newsgroup; if none are highlighted (the situation on its first load), search is disabled. This interface sucks. Rather than show my e-mail as a separate message store, the Inbox is simply packed in with the list of newsgroups. The primary reason that I wanted to trial Agent was to see if its ability to killfile was better than what I can define in Outlook Express. Nope, Agent is just as impotent as OE. I can killfile on e-mail address, moniker (sender name), In OE, I can define a kill filter without even having a message selected or open; i.e., I can define a rule based on info that I already possess without having to go find a post from the sender. In Agent, Add Filter is disabled until I select a message. What if that is not the message upon which I want to define a kill filter? Okay, so I select the post for a sender that want to killfile. Since they use a mail2news gateway (i.e., anonymous remailer), I cannot filter on Author or E-mail Address (these change or are bogus on each post they make). However, I don't want anything sent from that remailer so I figure to filter on the "NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.187.225.31" header and enter that, select Delete, but when I click OK a message pops up saying, "It is not possible to filter for field NNTP-Posting-Host". Oh, great, so Agent is just as impotent as OE to define kill filters. I can define "subject: sendername" but not other qualifiers (where "qualifier" really means in which header to restrict the search). "In addition, you can use so-called expression qualifiers to limit the search to selected fields." Okay, so how about listing what qualifiers are supported. Obviously NNTP-Posting-Host is not supported. From what I found in the included help, the miniscule qualifiers available are "subject:" and "author:" (or "from:"). Oh, wow, what a huge list of qualifiers - NOT! I can also definitely scrap the idea of trying to check for "!mail2news" to be at the end of the string using regular expressions in the PATH header. Why is it so hard to let the user search on ANY particular header that may occur in a post? Even e-mail filtering has a severely restricted list of qualifiers (i.e., headers) that you can specify. Having regular expressions is great but rendered toothless if you cannot specify ANY particular header in which to perform the search. I can't be the only user that has ever wanted to filter newsgroup posts based on headers *other* than just subject and author. Well, Agent gets put on hold and probably will get uninstalled while I go to investigate Thunderbird. |
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"davetest"
wrote in : Well they have their own group. Post there and ask the product experts. alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Cannot specify a non-standard port for the POP3 mail server. I go through SpamPal for spam filtering which accepts POP3 connections but I have it configured to monitor for POP3 connects on port 7110, not on the standard port of 110. This is the first e-mail capable client that I have encountered where I cannot specify what port it will use to connect to the POP3 server. This severe deficiency makes Agent completely unusable to me for e-mail. While I had no intention of using Agent as my e-mail client for my non-news accounts, I had expected to use it for my news-related e-mail account (the one published in the Reply-To header in my posts). Guess not! After installing Agent again, which is the 30-day trial version before it cripples itself to the Free version, I remembered why I had previously abandoned this newsreader as incompetent. It will not support multiple news servers. In Outlook Express (and, I think, in Thunderbird) you can define multiple news server to which the NNTP client will connect. This is not possible in Agent. I believe there was a workaround where you use multiple configuration files and specify which one to use in different shortcuts to start Agent, but this means that I have to bother going through this manual setup and I also cannot jump between news servers without having to exit and then reload Agent. No one using Agent over the years has ever expressed that they visit multiple news servers? I got a list of newsgroups from my single news server. Okay, now how do I subscribe to the ones that I visit regularly? Sure I can scroll through the list of 80,000 newsgroups but I have better things to do. When I search on "subscribe" in its help, I get a description of NEWSRC files instead. If I do a search, I have to enter enough of the the newsgroup name to get a single match highlighted in the newsgroup list pane as opposed to OE that shows me progressively all matching newsgroup names as I progressively enter more of a portion of the newsgroup name. I have to use Find Next to scroll through the list of possible matches. Note that Search is disabled until you highlight a newsgroup; if none are highlighted (the situation on its first load), search is disabled. This interface sucks. Rather than show my e-mail as a separate message store, the Inbox is simply packed in with the list of newsgroups. The primary reason that I wanted to trial Agent was to see if its ability to killfile was better than what I can define in Outlook Express. Nope, Agent is just as impotent as OE. I can killfile on e-mail address, moniker (sender name), In OE, I can define a kill filter without even having a message selected or open; i.e., I can define a rule based on info that I already possess without having to go find a post from the sender. In Agent, Add Filter is disabled until I select a message. What if that is not the message upon which I want to define a kill filter? Okay, so I select the post for a sender that want to killfile. Since they use a mail2news gateway (i.e., anonymous remailer), I cannot filter on Author or E-mail Address (these change or are bogus on each post they make). However, I don't want anything sent from that remailer so I figure to filter on the "NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.187.225.31" header and enter that, select Delete, but when I click OK a message pops up saying, "It is not possible to filter for field NNTP-Posting-Host". Oh, great, so Agent is just as impotent as OE to define kill filters. I can define "subject: sendername" but not other qualifiers (where "qualifier" really means in which header to restrict the search). "In addition, you can use so-called expression qualifiers to limit the search to selected fields." Okay, so how about listing what qualifiers are supported. Obviously NNTP-Posting-Host is not supported. From what I found in the included help, the miniscule qualifiers available are "subject:" and "author:" (or "from:"). Oh, wow, what a huge list of qualifiers - NOT! I can also definitely scrap the idea of trying to check for "!mail2news" to be at the end of the string using regular expressions in the PATH header. Why is it so hard to let the user search on ANY particular header that may occur in a post? Even e-mail filtering has a severely restricted list of qualifiers (i.e., headers) that you can specify. Having regular expressions is great but rendered toothless if you cannot specify ANY particular header in which to perform the search. I can't be the only user that has ever wanted to filter newsgroup posts based on headers *other* than just subject and author. Well, Agent gets put on hold and probably will get uninstalled while I go to investigate Thunderbird. |
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"davetest"
wrote in : Well they have their own group. Post there and ask the product experts. alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Cannot specify a non-standard port for the POP3 mail server. I go through SpamPal for spam filtering which accepts POP3 connections but I have it configured to monitor for POP3 connects on port 7110, not on the standard port of 110. This is the first e-mail capable client that I have encountered where I cannot specify what port it will use to connect to the POP3 server. This severe deficiency makes Agent completely unusable to me for e-mail. While I had no intention of using Agent as my e-mail client for my non-news accounts, I had expected to use it for my news-related e-mail account (the one published in the Reply-To header in my posts). Guess not! After installing Agent again, which is the 30-day trial version before it cripples itself to the Free version, I remembered why I had previously abandoned this newsreader as incompetent. It will not support multiple news servers. In Outlook Express (and, I think, in Thunderbird) you can define multiple news server to which the NNTP client will connect. This is not possible in Agent. I believe there was a workaround where you use multiple configuration files and specify which one to use in different shortcuts to start Agent, but this means that I have to bother going through this manual setup and I also cannot jump between news servers without having to exit and then reload Agent. No one using Agent over the years has ever expressed that they visit multiple news servers? I got a list of newsgroups from my single news server. Okay, now how do I subscribe to the ones that I visit regularly? Sure I can scroll through the list of 80,000 newsgroups but I have better things to do. When I search on "subscribe" in its help, I get a description of NEWSRC files instead. If I do a search, I have to enter enough of the the newsgroup name to get a single match highlighted in the newsgroup list pane as opposed to OE that shows me progressively all matching newsgroup names as I progressively enter more of a portion of the newsgroup name. I have to use Find Next to scroll through the list of possible matches. Note that Search is disabled until you highlight a newsgroup; if none are highlighted (the situation on its first load), search is disabled. This interface sucks. Rather than show my e-mail as a separate message store, the Inbox is simply packed in with the list of newsgroups. The primary reason that I wanted to trial Agent was to see if its ability to killfile was better than what I can define in Outlook Express. Nope, Agent is just as impotent as OE. I can killfile on e-mail address, moniker (sender name), In OE, I can define a kill filter without even having a message selected or open; i.e., I can define a rule based on info that I already possess without having to go find a post from the sender. In Agent, Add Filter is disabled until I select a message. What if that is not the message upon which I want to define a kill filter? Okay, so I select the post for a sender that want to killfile. Since they use a mail2news gateway (i.e., anonymous remailer), I cannot filter on Author or E-mail Address (these change or are bogus on each post they make). However, I don't want anything sent from that remailer so I figure to filter on the "NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.187.225.31" header and enter that, select Delete, but when I click OK a message pops up saying, "It is not possible to filter for field NNTP-Posting-Host". Oh, great, so Agent is just as impotent as OE to define kill filters. I can define "subject: sendername" but not other qualifiers (where "qualifier" really means in which header to restrict the search). "In addition, you can use so-called expression qualifiers to limit the search to selected fields." Okay, so how about listing what qualifiers are supported. Obviously NNTP-Posting-Host is not supported. From what I found in the included help, the miniscule qualifiers available are "subject:" and "author:" (or "from:"). Oh, wow, what a huge list of qualifiers - NOT! I can also definitely scrap the idea of trying to check for "!mail2news" to be at the end of the string using regular expressions in the PATH header. Why is it so hard to let the user search on ANY particular header that may occur in a post? Even e-mail filtering has a severely restricted list of qualifiers (i.e., headers) that you can specify. Having regular expressions is great but rendered toothless if you cannot specify ANY particular header in which to perform the search. I can't be the only user that has ever wanted to filter newsgroup posts based on headers *other* than just subject and author. Well, Agent gets put on hold and probably will get uninstalled while I go to investigate Thunderbird. |
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If I correctly understood your first post, you have Outlook installed. That
probably is your default Program for E-mail in the Start Menu as well as at Internet Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Programs. Go back to Internet Options/Programs and make Outlook Express your program for Newsgroups access. -- Gene K aa wrote in message ... Thanks, Ramesh, It works. But fopr some reason OE does not show up in the Start-All Programs a "Ramesh [MVP]" wrote in message ... Windows XP does include Outlook Express. Launch Outlook Express using the Quick Launch shortcut or by directly running the file msimn.exe located at %programfiles%\outlook express. Start/Run and type: %Programfiles%\Outlook Express\MSIMN.EXE -- Ramesh, Microsoft MVP Windows XP Shell/User http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k aa wrote in message ... Thanks, So the answer is re-install IE from MS website which should add OE? "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...roupsetup.mspx -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. aa wrote in message ... On w2k I used to OutlookExpress to access news groups. In my XP installation there is IE but no OE. Outlook installed with Office does not allow news account (or it does?). How do I access news groups other then throught IE? |
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Missed this in my previous post. Go here for a good tutorial on setting up
Outlook Express as a news reader/writer: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm -- Gene K aa wrote in message ... On w2k I used to OutlookExpress to access news groups. In my XP installation there is IE but no OE. Outlook installed with Office does not allow news account (or it does?). How do I access news groups other then throught IE? |
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