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Old 03-03-2007   #3 (permalink)
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM


 
 

Re: Newsgroups

"Kevin Gal" <KevinGal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:975359E9-287D-4EFF-9C84-1536AAFB4E83@microsoft.com...
>I have never really used the discussion groups outside of IE, this is a
>very
> basic question do I have to have a pop email address to reply to a posting
> from Windows Mail, who do I reply to (reply of group reply)? And what is a
> Newsgroup account and should I be using this to reply?


You do not need a POP3 email address to use news. You should always Reply
to Group. Using just Plain Reply replies to the sender and you will find
that many, many posters use false addresses, which is a good idea if you
don't like spam. A useful fake email address would be KevinGal@fake.invalid
..

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email.


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