Vista - Microsoft Communities

In Vista I noticed now there is access to Microsoft's own usenet groups. Here
on the web interface I can log in with the Windows Live and post this
question. But my question is what do I need to post within Windows Mail? The
Windows Live ID does not work if I select the server to use a log in. But so
far nothing I have posted as shown up.

"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:852C5D31-0734-412F-B2A8-6310484A0AAD@xxxxxxYou can't send email through Microsoft's newsgroup server. You need to
ask your internet provider how to use their email server - most of the
instructions are often somewhere on their web site. Or, you could tell
us who your internet provider is and see if anyone here has already found
the instructions. The same goes for posting to newsgroups other than
Microsoft's - you're likely to find other newsgroups on their newsgroup
server if they have one.

I'm not familiar with Windows Live, which is not the same as Windows Live
Mail, a program you may need to download from Microsoft if you need to
connect using a web interface.

I am not trying to send e-mail, merely post to the Microsoft's own
newsgroups. When I first setup Vista, and the Mail program there is the
option to add the "Microsoft Communities" account, which is just Usenet.
While I can receive posts, I just can not respond or post anything to the
server. So my question is how can I enable posting to these groups?

By going to www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/ I can log in here
using a Windows Live ID and post, as I have done now. But withing Windows
Mail I can view this same message, just not respond. But this is merely a web
interface to their own usenet server. Since my Windows Live ID seems to work
only for the web interface, I would like to know what I need to post to the
groups from withing Windows Mail

"robertNOSPAMmiles@xxxxxx" wrote:

My Microsoft Communities account already came set up so I could
read and post.

When you are reading a Microsoft Communities post under Windows
Mail, what happens if you click on Reply Group or click on Message
and then New Message?

You might click on Tools, then Options, then Send, and if there's no
check mark in the box before Send messages immediately, click on
this box and then Apply. Click on OK to leave this window.

If you add a newsgroups account for your internet provider, you may
find that they carry microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail on their server
and you would have another place to try sending a message.

"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A457609C-B31A-4D75-870C-EEA013DDCAD6@xxxxxx

Jim, just click on the link below, and it will do all the setup work
for you:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ows.vista.mail

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:852C5D31-0734-412F-B2A8-6310484A0AAD@xxxxxx

"Jim" <Jim@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:852C5D31-0734-412F-B2A8-6310484A0AAD@xxxxxxLog in with the same Live ID and you will have the same rating, etc.
abilities.

--
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
www.fjsmjs.com
Do not send email