Vista - Use of These Newsgroups

Is there a Discussion Group somewhere dedicated to use of these groups?

- I normally select "Notify me of replies". I'll get an email with two links
(one to "Read the Response" and another to "Continue receiving notifications
for this thread...".

Lately it seems clicking on either of these links runs Internet Explorer
with a long URL, but a blank page. Copying and Pasting the URL doesn't help
either. Often the only thing that calls up a page with any contents is
clicking from a spam app called MailWasher.

"John Ciccone" <JohnCiccone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8567E436-181B-453D-B9BD-F550A70F08B8@xxxxxx
Do yourself a favour - ditch the horrible web interface and use a news
reader. (Unless you are behind a corporate firewall, and are accessing these
groups without the knowledge of your ID dept)

Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm

Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...roupsetup.mspx

"John Ciccone" <JohnCiccone@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8567E436-181B-453D-B9BD-F550A70F08B8@xxxxxxYou could probably do better by going to the group that represents the
particular Internet Portal hosting them. Your questions are about how Google
or Yahoo, or others, unstated handle their groups and how they work in the
browser. It's not a Vista problem, and it's not a file-management problem.

Another poster suggested using the newsreader supplied with Vista (Windows
Mail) It makes it easy to set up Microsoft groups. They are not created or
managed on a website, and the software that creates the website that manages
them is not Vista product. I don't know how to visit these groups from the
web, or what features that offers. A newsreader like Windows Mail is much
faster and simpler in many ways. On the other hand, it won't send you an
email when a group member responds to something. You just check the group,
and your watch threads, and it will be there when you are ready.

Good luck.

Thank you.

I've discovered that if you first log in to the communities sites, the links
embedded in the email notifications do work.