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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.

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.

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

-- 
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)