"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message
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VanguardLH wrote:

"Grampy Pete" wrote ...

I called my isp + the nnt they gave me was newsgroups
.comcast.net.
I followed all the instructions and when I downloaded newsgroups
none of the
windows ones could be found -I use windows xp help and support all
the time
but awkwardly so I am trying o.x.
Can you explain why I cannot get windows?

None of the Windows WHICH VERSION could not be found? Comcast
contracts their newsgroups service from Giganews who carry all the
microsoft.public.* newsgroups. Most likely you didn't enter the
correct string to find the groups you were looking for.

Vanguard, I think you need new glasses.

I'm a Comcast customer. I use Comcast's contracted newsgroups service
from Giganews. There are over 4000 microsoft.public.* newsgroups
carried by Giganews.

When posting in microsoft.public.* and microsoft.private.* newsgroups,
I use Microsoft's NNTP servers but I can, if I choose, use Comcast's
NNTP server (and I did for awhile, or when Microsoft's NNTP server
isn't responsive). I use Microsoft's NNTP servers to lessen the
impact to my monthly bandwidth quota with Comcast.

You really thought msnews.microsoft.public was a *private* NNTP server
in that it doesn't propagate its posts to other NNTP servers? Or that
Microsoft only accepted posts that propagate to it from other NNTP
servers but doesn't propagate any of them out to other NNTP servers?