On 11/04/2012 18:18, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Right. I've no need for MS Office.

But if it's only available with a pro set - when news groups are
essentially a hobby or leisure thing - what does that tell you about MS?

You've got it backwards. Outlook as distributed with Office is not a
newsgroup client. Outlook Express (for it's faults) is. It's possible to
use both on the same machine.

I've often thought that inside a company, that a local newsgroup server
would be of some use as a collaborative tool, rather than group emails.
I'd readily implement one without a moments thought.

But Microsoft (and others) have other software solutions to bolt onto
Office Outlook.

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Adrian C