"Mac" wrote in message
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Oops, I see it uses Outlook Express. I didn't necessarily want to use OE,
but guess I have no choince if Outlook XP is my only and primary client?

Not at all - you can use any news reader you like - if you set it as
default, then the Go-News option in Outlook will open it.
have a look he
http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html