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My wife recently reformatted our HD and I lost the news groups. I go
through the process and it starts to download the groups but stops after a
short while . It appears that the login is wrong but I am pretty sure it
is right. I had this problem before and as I remember some of the numbers
were wrong. Would you send me the numbers I need to set it up again.
Thanks


What newsgroups are you looking for?
What server are you trying to use?

See if you can do this:
In Outlook Express go to Tools | Accounts | Add (or New) | News.
Set up an account for this news server:

msnews.microsoft.com

The server is free and does not require you to logon. This news server
carries over 2200 newsgroups related to Microsoft products and keeps
messages at least 30 days.

For more detail see
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm

And here are two articles Tom Koch wrote about using newsgroups in Outlook
Express:

Outlook Express Newsgroups 101
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/IE/...groups101.mspx

Mastering Newsgroups in Outlook Express: Power User Tips
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...ewsgroups.mspx

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com