Re: Outlook and news

On 2026/2/21 10:30:38, ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ wrote:
> On 2/20/2026 6:57 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> It was not msimn.exe.
>   Msimn was prior to Outlook Express and IE4, though Outlook 
> Express(included with MSN Explorer 2.6 and with IE4 circa 1997) initial 
> release for the most part was just a renaming msinm client as Outlook 
> Express. Msimn(Internet Mail and News) was included in Win95 but not 
> later and originally could be used(as an email and news client) in 
> addition to Win95 Windows Messaging(mail only client, which was also a a 
> rename or Windows Exchange[not to be confused with Exchange Server - and 
> the reason for the rename to Windows Messaging).
> 
> Outlook required Exchange Server(not available in commercial Win95-XP 
> o/s) for newsgroups.
> 
> The *news* connection you may be recalling in Outlook with Outlook 
> Express was quite simple.
> 
> Afaik, at one time an Outlook Express add-in was available but it only 
> was a call to open Outlook Express for 'news'.

We had the full Outlook - calendar, all the rest, quite useful in a work
environment. Until some point, we also had news access - it included
some internal newsgroups, and at least some external.

> The most common and dependable version was a 3rd party add-in called 
> MAPILab NNTP which provided a read/post news method within the main 
> Outlook application(effectively using Outlook Express code as the 
> vehicle to read/post).
> 
That was the impression I got. I'd be surprised if the company I worked
for (anagram of messybeast) did things like that add-on, but maybe it
did; it obviously must have been running a newsserver, given the
in-house 'groups, so it may have.
> 
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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