"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
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In article , Dave Plowman (News)
writes

My guess is MS are very against any free service for the community such as
Usenet.

I'd agree. They can't even be bothered to properly maintain Hotmail and
Messenger.


That's because they have been replaced with windows live mail.
Try downloading it and use that.

http://get.live.com