Synapse Syndrome

"Tom" <noway@nothere.com> wrote in message
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> "Saucy Lemon" <guidREMOVEsaucy@THIShotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uX4NTjEUHHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
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>> Windows Mail does support the /newsonly and the /outnews swtiches, so you
>> can operate it as a stand-alone newsreader-only program [or as MS
>> Office's Outlook's newsreader program] instead of as an email program.
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> Outlook (in any release year) doesn't function as a newsreader, nor does
> it have a newsreading program, never has. You can only have Outlook, if
> set up as such, open "News (a newsreader)" and then it will open Windows
> mail (or OE in previous OSes) to use a newsreader. But why do that when
> one can just simply open WM?



You misread. If you use the /outnews switch on the Windows Mail shortcut,
the program opens with the email stuff disabled and the program is named
Outlook Newsreader in the titlebar.

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