Thanks all of us for those infos. But please could you give the exact links to those servers and to those newsgroups? as well as the precise and complete way to reach at least a place where they explain how to join the newsgroups?

I too often see an address like "cars.alt.edu" with absolutely no way to know how to reach; any attempt to build a NEWS url fails, any googling never returns a NEWS URL. This for any NGs, not particularly for google NGs.

Paris, Wed 6 Sep 2006 18:41:00 +0200


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From: "Joan Archer"
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlooke xpress
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%236CWta...TNGP04.phx.gbl
Sent: Mon 28 Aug 2006 14:34:15 +0100 (13:34:15 GMT)
Subject: Google News Groups

No not really, they are free to use as opposed to having to pay a monthly fee. The setup fee is very small I think it worked out about £2 for me.
Joan


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From: "Touch Base"
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlooke xpress
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%23WciZB...TNGP03.phx.gbl
Sent: Mon 28 Aug 2006 22:51:48 +1000 (12:51:48 GMT)
Subject: Google News Groups

"they are free with just a small set up fee" isn't that a contradiction?


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Joan Archer"
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlooke xpress
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%23%23q6...TNGP02.phx.gbl
Sent: Mon 28 Aug 2006 11:12:56 +0100 (10:12:56 GMT)
Subject: Google News Groups

Have a look at teranews Steve, they are free with just a small set up fee.
Joan


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From: " mac"
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlooke xpress
Message:
Sent: Mon 28 Aug 2006 01:18:49 +0100 (00:18:49 GMT)
Subject: Google News Groups

AFAIK that is not available, Google archives its messages from various newsservers, you will need to find a server that carries the groups concerned, and then set it up in OE.
Free newsservers are becoming few and far between of late, in fact I need one, but have only just realised :-)

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


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From: "Tom Brown"
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlooke xpress
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/us52zVjy...TNGP06.phx.gbl
Sent: Sun 27 Aug 2006 18:03:40 -0600 (Mon 28 Aug 00:03:40 GMT)
Subject: Google News Groups

I would like to use OE newsreader to get messages from certain Google Groups the same as I do on the different groups at msnews.microsoft.com. I have been unsuccessful to far but I can't imagine it's really that hard. I guess I need a valid news server (NNTP) address if one exists.

TIA,

Tom