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On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:12:43 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-me@other.invalid> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:41:47 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:57:10 -0700, Evan Platt
> > <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:26:16 +0100, "john east" <etsept@mail.invalid>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>>Someone suggested i download 'outlook 2003' for my emails in preference to 
> >>>windows live mail, and that i could also get my newsgroups from eternal 
> >>>september. Would you think that is a good idea?
> >> 
> >> I wouldn't think using Outlook - any version - for newsgroups is a
> >> good idea.
> > 
> > As I pointed out in an earlier message in this thread, it's not a
> > question of a good idea or not. It's simply not possible.
> 
> Sort of.
> 
> As I understand it, Outlook can (or could in earlier versions) be
> configured to use Outlook Express as a plug-in-like app to read
> newsgroups.


No, it wasn't anything at all like a plug-in app. It simply linked to
Outlook Express (and the link could easily be changed to any other
program you want). There was simply a button called something like
"newsgroups" that, when clicked, started Outlook Express. 


 
> Strictly speaking, of course, it wasn't Outlook that was reading the
> newsgroups, but to the user (especially a naive one) that might not be
> obvious.


That's very much correct. There were *many* people (perhaps including
Evan Platt) who mistakenly thought Outlook Express did newsgroups.

 
> It might have been nice if MS could have allowed other newsreaders to be
> used that way as well.


They did and it was easy to change (although I no longer remember how
I did it).