"dgmacmi<>" <dgmacmi@xxxxxx> wrote in
news:e6LDG3HUIHA.5132@xxxxxx:
Quote:
> Your ISP copies the
> newsgroups from msnews.microsoft.com and may not be current.
Wrong. And it may be censored as well. The only way to see where your ISP
gets Usenet from is to look at the Path: header. The first entry on the
line is the LAST server the post went thru. The ISP server will have
push/pull peers with which it sends and receives posts from.
Quote:
> To use msnews.microsoft.com you need to provide a user name and email
> address. However, both can be any user name and email address you
> choose. The email address need not be an actual email address and
> should not be your real email address.
To use any news _client_ you usually have to fill in this info. No
different for MSNEWS. It sounds as if you are saynig it needs a
username/password.