"PA Bear" wrote in message
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What happens when you click on the following link?...

news://msnews.microsoft.com

Also try news://news.microsoft.com

If those links do not create an account for you try setting the account up
afresh using - news.microsoft.com -or- msnews.microsoft.com - as the server
name.

They are both the same server but I have read elsewhere, that you are not
alone in being unable to get to them.

I can get them on both server names.

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Regards Steve.
MS-MVP. OE. [DTS]