If you are using the default Community newsgroup server, it only hosts
microsoft.public groups. You will have to create a news account with an
appropriate server to download other newsgroup and I suspect pipex.com has
its own news server.
Look at Tools/Accounts to create a new, news account with an appropriate
server.
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Windows Mail Apps
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
"Gus Noon" <avtt67@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:wtmdnT_ax4U-r9zYnZ2dnUVZ8s2dnZ2d@pipex.net...
> the only newsgroups I can download are microsoft .public ones and i cant
> figure out why all the other groups are not downloading I have the same
> settings on xp and it works fine any1 help pls ty