"BrianDH" <Br*****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8A**********************************@microsof t.com...
Wow.. there is just not a day that goes by that I don't learn
something from this site!
Want to learn something else? Although you may be accessing it through a
Web browser, it's not really a "site." It's a USENET newsgroup.
I stand corrected
Being a newsgroup you can also access it by other means, specifically a news
reader. Outlook Express is one such program that you most likely have on
your machine. You just set up a news account with msnews.microsoft.com as
the server and bang! you have access to all the microsoft.public.* groups. I
highly recommend doing this because, plain and simple, Microsoft's Web-based
newsreader sucks. They've been improving it, but it just doesn't (and
probably never will) match the performance and ease-of-use of a full-blown
newsreader.