Outlook and news (was: Re: Thunderbird and MIDs)
"J. P. Gilliver" <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:57:54 +0000
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On 2026/2/20 23:0:4, Char Jackson wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:00:46 -0500, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: [] >> Outlook > Outlook Express. Outlook has no Usenet capability. [] Mostly correct. However, on one setup I used (at work), it did: I think it called the msimn.exe that was present. But - IIRR, it was well over a decade ago, maybe two - it presented the news component as if it was inside the Outlook hierarchy. We learnt - again, I forget details - to be careful how to phrase enquiries to the internal IT helpdesk, because "we do not support news" or some similar phrase, but if you phrased the question in a suitable way, they did help. (It became moot eventually, because they closed down news - unfortunately, as it both had some access to usenet, and had some internal-to-the-company newsgroups, so there was obviously a news server.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it (Anon)