== Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a@a.a)'s article > > I guess I don't know how to setup my outlook client to use the news > > link? When I click the news link. Nothing happens. > I don't have access to a Win7 machine ATM, but on both XP and Vista, you can > do: > Tools -> Accounts. There will be a button for "Add". Click that and then you > can choose "News". And just fill in all the info. The (NNTP) server is > "news.digitalmars.com", and it doesn't take a login. > Then you should see the news server in the big tree on the left side of the > main window. You can choose which groups to subscribe to (digitalmars.D, > digitalmars.D.learn, etc.). When you're subscribes to one, you can go to it > and click the "Headers" button to check for messages (at least that's what > it is in on XP). Downloading the headers might take awhile the first time.
Directions look very promising. My outlook complains about "problem connecting to the server". So, when I tried to ping the ip address of news.digitalmars.com, all requests time out. So is it just that the server is down? by the way, thanks for helping me out!!