news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

I have Win7 Premium 64 bit and WLM.

Do I need a special user name and password to add a newsgroup account with
the above newsreader? Whatever I do at the moment I get 'The server could
not be found' when I get to the stage of trying to download newsgroups. My
setup appears to be the same as other working newsreaders
(news.individual.net and news.eternal-september.org) except for username
and password, which are unique to the latter respective servers. I don't
really need this server, but I want to find out what I am doing wrong.

 

Give me a clue. I cannot see it. Except that I have Win7 Home Premium.

 

The *actual* full message you get is what?

You mention a email/news program - Windows mail and then two servers you *say*
work, but then you mention the microsoft server. I just created a new server in
my news programs and got the 1772 groups no problem. I would guess it's a DNS problem
with your ISP - it happens quite a bit. I don't use mine any more and haven't for
years.

 

[...]

You haven't said *precisely* what you are entering as the address of the
server; I suspect that is where the error arises.

It appears that no login or athentication is needed to use that server,
and the newsgroup concerned is present and active if this session is any
guide:

$ telnet msnews.microsoft.com nntp
Trying 207.46.248.16...
Connected to msnews.microsoft.com (207.46.248.16).
Escape character is '^]'.
200 NNTP Service 6.0.3790.3959 Version: 6.0.3790.3959 Posting Allowed
GROUP microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
211 5827 485526 493121 microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
HEAD 493121
221 493121 <>
From: "Bruce Hagen" <>
References: <>
In-Reply-To: <>
Subject: Re: Windows Live Menu and options
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:28:33 -0800
Lines: 19
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="Utf-8";
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18005
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7600.16385
Message-ID: <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop
NNTP-Posting-Host: ip72-199-58-187.sd.sd.cox.net 72.199.58.187
Path: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl
Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl
microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop:493121
..
QUIT
205 closing connection - goodbye!
Connection closed by foreign host.
$

 

Windows7 sucks dick on horseback. Just like every other version of
windoze ever produced. Dump that bullshit and install Linux, and start
enjoying your computer again.

 

Now you are being helpful and thanks. My mistake was to use
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop when
adding a newsgroup account rather than msnews.microsoft.com. The latter
works perfectly, but I prefer the all enveloping news.individual.net. I
thought of letting my wife use the msnews.microsoft.com account but it is
quite restrictive in its provision of news groups and I will probably get
another news.individual.net account for her. It is 10 euro per year per
account and very effective.

 

msnews.microsoft.com are all big dull fat smelly poopieheds.

Use Astranews... buy a once-off for ~10 pesos, [thats about
600 burritos in Mexico away from the tourist towns[ but it
will last you for decades if you only use text groups.
They don't even charge you for downloading headers or
updating newly added newsgroups.

http://www.news.astraweb.com/

Plus, you can access any number of their servers, like one for each
member of your harem, if you like... and each one of these, you can
clone as many times as you like, up to 50 connections, at once [with
a proper newsreader].

General Server: news.astraweb.com

European Server: eu.news.astraweb.com

US Server: us.news.astraweb.com

Ports: 119, 23, 1818 or 8080

Secure Servers:

ssl.astraweb.com Ports 443 or 563

ssl-eu.astraweb.com Ports 443 or 563 (European)

ssl-us.astraweb.com Ports 443 or 563 (US)

Maximum Connections: 50 connections

--

I AM Bucky Breeder, (*(^; ;
so... what are your other 2 wishes?

Repent! The end is near.... So, smoke 'em if you got 'em.

 

Thanks for going to all that trouble, but I think I will stick with
new.individual.net at the moment as it does all what I need and I like it.

 

OK then; but, it's like Benjamin Franklin said
which got his face posted on the US $100 bill :

"A euro saved is a euro not circulating on the
precariously under-regulated world trade economies."

--

I AM Bucky Breeder, (*(^; ;
so... what are your other 2 wishes?

Repent! The end is near.... So, smoke 'em if you got 'em.

 

Wrong, n00b. PnP MM works fine on Linux.

Here: http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/humor/cluepon.jpg