Can you trick Outlook into working with newsgroups?

[cmpgeek]

i prefer outlook over outlook express any day of the week. unfortunately, outlook does not deal with newsgroups and my online classes are all set up via newsgroups... is there a way to trick Outlook so it doesnt know it is looking at a newsgroup? i mean, if everything comes from the NG via the NG's email address, and everything you send back to the group goes out under the generic NG address - how does outlook distinguish a difference? i cant justsify using outlook for everything else and OE for my classes - i would rather just have one place to download email... i just wish that 1 place could be outlook...

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

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[smah]

Outlook's newsreader is a subset of OE. There's not much you can do about it.

 

[Marcs41]

"how does outlook distinguish a difference?"

Mail is using the SMTP protocol, Newsreaders use NNTP, just like webservers use HTTP, and so on

Marc
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[cmpgeek]

thanks smah - that was what i thought, but it never hurts to ask...

Marc - thanks for explainging that - it makes complete sense to me now...

hope yall have a great holiday!

[santa2]

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