That would depend on the news server you use. A shortcut can be created to
a news group by using the info in this link:
http://www.insideoe.com/tips/makeOElinks.htm
--
Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
Thanks.


"Andrea" <gecko_drea@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ugUwxrm7FHA.2092@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Thank You!!!
> That worked for this and the other miscrosoft newsgroup I was accessing!!
> Now if I could access alt.binaries.fonts too I'd be extremely happy!!
> Is there a link for that too? Like the one you guys gave me?
>
> Thanks again!
> Andrea
>
> "Jim Pickering" <jim.pickering@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uaBFTvg7FHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Close Internet Explorer, then click on the link Tim indicated below in
>> his reply (or copy/paste the link into the Start/Run line). It should
>> open directly in Outlook Express. If it does not, post back with any
>> error message you may be getting. Do you also have Outlook (component of
>> MS Office) installed on this computer?
>> --
>> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
>> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
>> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> "gecko_drea" <geckodrea@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:7CF905DA-F411-4A89-A14D-1645C8E6DAAD@microsoft.com...
>>> Hi Tim
>>> Yes, I access this newsgroup via IE... not OE... I can get to one of my
>>> other much used newsgroups via IE too... but find using OE much easier
>>> so
>>> would have liked to get the problem sorted...
>>> ho-hum
>>>
>>>
>>> "Kuay Tim" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Andrea,
>>>>
>>>> Beyond saying there's a problem with headers I can't be of much help.
>>>>
>>>> The Errors Without Cause or Solution Specified
>>>>
>>>> 0x800CCCAC NNTP_HEADERS_FAILED Unable to display headers.
>>>> 420 No article(s) selected
>>>>
>>>> Can you successfully connect to this newsgroup using NNTP and the
>>>> Microsoft
>>>> server?
>>>>
>>>> News Link for this Group
>>>> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlooke xpress
>>>> If the link is not active it can be copied to the Start, Run box for
>>>> use.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Tim K.
>>>> aka Kuay Tim
>>>> MS-MVP - Outlook Express
>>>> Lynnwood, WA
>>>> *
>>>> "gecko_drea" <geckodrea@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:EDF5BEEF-6597-4145-AAD3-DF24E4CD5D1D@microsoft.com...
>>>> OE is suddenly no longer able to download my subscribed newsgroup
>>>> messages!
>>>> HELP... this is the note I get:
>>>>
>>>> 420 XOVER 136603902 - 136604100 alt.binaries.fonts
>>>> Configuration:
>>>> Account: news.bubbanews.com
>>>> Server: news.bubbanews.com
>>>> User name: drea77
>>>> Protocol: NNTP
>>>> Port: 119
>>>> Secure(SSL): 0
>>>> Error Number: 420
>>>> Code: 800cccac
>>>>
>>>> Up until a week or 2 ago I had no problems, then I could not access the
>>>> groups at all... I would get "Connected" "Authorizing", then numbers
>>>> would
>>>> appear in brackets and then just disappear... and now I get the above
>>>> message
>>>> after 1 message of 200 gets downloaded...
>>>> Any ideas what has happened? I have tried synchronizing - same
>>>> "error".....
>>>> I do not re-call chaning any settings... any clues??
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Andrea
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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