aalaan wrote:

The work you and other MVPs do is very much appreciated

Just to set the record straight, I'm not an MVP. However, I agree there are
great MVPs in this group. I'd like to know half what some of them
demonstrably know.

but do
remember that some people (like the hapless new poster the other day
to whom you replied, perhaps a bit tersely, with words to the effect
of 'It's been asked and answered dozens of time on this ng, you
mutt')

I never said "you mutt".

are, in comparison *new* and less clued up than you. A bit of
patience would not go amiss.

Everyone who uses a computer should be smart enough to seach before asking.
Many (most?) ISP home pages have "search the web" links. Certainly Google
is among the most famous. ven the web interface to these groups that
Microsoft offers has a search function.

And now, if I haven't p*d you right off, perhaps you (or someone
else) could briefly explain *why* I get the OE newsreader when I go
through Outlook 2000, and what to do about it..

You haven't ****ed me off. In fact, I would contend that's hard to do.

You get Outlook Express because that's the way Microsoft designed it.
Rather than add NNTP handling to Outlook, Microsoft wrote the News menu item
handling to call the newsreader configured in Internet Explorer's programs
settings. If that's Outlook Express, then OE is called with the /outnews
command line switch.
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Brian Tillman