Why don't you want to use OE as just your newsreader and still use Outlook
for mail? You can run OE in a "news only" mode -- just add the /newsonly
switch to the shortcut you open OE with. You can mark threads as "watched"
if you are involved with them, so they're easy to find again later.

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"Mac" wrote:

Looks like you were perhaps talking about the MAPILab NNTP for Outlook. I
appreciate the link, but there didn't seem to be any free ones and I don't
want to sign up for "take part in testing or purchasing the products and
services of our partners". Mapi offers.

Since I am (as you suggested) using a different email account for the
address I have given here and keeping my personal account (default) away
from the newsgroup. I think it might be cheaper for me to just setup OE to
use that other account since outlook won't due multiple accounts. This way I
can keep them separate and hopefully maintain some security.

So this NNTP newsgroup won't send me an email notification. Pity. I'm not on
newsgroups (as I mentioned before) therefore will have to check every so
often to get some help with topics I post such as my contacts listings and
my MS Windows address book entries (which outlook seems to be using). The
MW address book will have to be on another MS newsgroup anyway won't it. Oh
well.
"Gordon" wrote in message
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"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