Subject: Re: No Message Text Available in News

From: Joe Brennan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 96 11:12:29 EDT

> 
> > Microsoft's news server is broken and doesn't give responses needed by
> > Pine. This is their own server software, and it doesn't work the way
> > that several newsreaders want it to.  Give up.  It's real broke.  Point
> > to any one of the real news servers with the M$ newsgroups on them. 
> > That will work to read the groups with Pine
> 
> So what is a REAL server? I have yet to find one! If you know of any
> please help me, as I had the same problem.
> 
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> ANDREA D. GONZALES                               
> [email-masked]
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The microsoft* newsgroups are not officially shared with any other
site, and the report above is correct, it runs nonstandard server
software, or one could say therefore not usenet news software.  For
some reason Microsoft likes it this way.

Joseph Brennan  Postmaster  Academic Information Systems
                Columbia University in the City of New York
                [email-masked]