Can anyone point me to where I can get the login name and password required
to access the microsoft.private.stationery group on the
private.microsoft.com newsserver?

Hi John,

Try this:

OE | TOOLS | ACCOUNTS | PROPERTIES | SERVER | SERVER NAME, type
"privatenews.microsoft.com" | ACCOUNT NAME, type "privatenews/stationery" |
PASSWORD, type "stationery" | check (enable) remember password. (Omit the
quotes when typing.)

Good Luck.
Andy I.



"John Deackoff" wrote in message
...
: Can anyone point me to where I can get the login name and password
required
: to access the microsoft.private.stationery group on the
: private.microsoft.com newsserver?
:
:

Courtesy of MVP Jim Pickering:
The private server can be accessed using the following settings in a new
news account:

Server: privatenews.microsoft.com
Account Name: privatenews\stationery
Password: stationery

The only reason it's on a private server is that Microsoft does not allow
posting of messages larger than 100 KB to pubic newsgroups...

The /public/ newsgroup microsoft.public.outlookexpress.stationery has such a
limit.

...Since many
stationeries are often much larger, since they include multiple images and
sound files, the use of a private newsgroups was set up to allow them to
continue with their creations. Broadband is certainly an asset since many
of the postings now exceed 400-500 KB routinely making them difficult for
telco users to download.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

John Deackoff wrote:
Can anyone point me to where I can get the login name and password
required
to access the microsoft.private.stationery group on the
private.microsoft.com newsserver?