Thanks!

Over the past week or so, I have seen postings complaining
about the "advice" given through this forum. I, for one,
have posted a few times over the past year and your advice
has been extremely helpful. I also periodically scan the
postings and have picked-up a lot of valuable information.
I used to be a computer user who "knew enough to be
dangerous." Through this forum, I now know a lot more and
have become less dangerous! Thanks for all your FREE
(emphasis added) advice. It is truly appreciated.

I do have one question. The main desktop P/C my wife and
I use runs ME. I do have a laptop I use occasionally that
runs Windows 98. Is there a specific newsgroup for
Windows 98 users?

Thanks,

Mike
Thu Apr 08 07:11:00 CDT 2004

cmg,

There are a large number of win98 specific newsgroups on the Microsoft news
server (msnews.microsoft.com). The English language ones all have names
starting microsoft.public.win98.* with the equivalent of this one being
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion.

I suspect that in the not too distant future we will see all of the Win 9x
newsgroups consolidated into a single hierarchy due to the demise of the 9x
systems.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com


cmg <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Over the past week or so, I have seen postings complaining
> about the "advice" given through this forum. I, for one,
> have posted a few times over the past year and your advice
> has been extremely helpful. I also periodically scan the
> postings and have picked-up a lot of valuable information.
> I used to be a computer user who "knew enough to be
> dangerous." Through this forum, I now know a lot more and
> have become less dangerous! Thanks for all your FREE
> (emphasis added) advice. It is truly appreciated.
>
> I do have one question. The main desktop P/C my wife and
> I use runs ME. I do have a laptop I use occasionally that
> runs Windows 98. Is there a specific newsgroup for
> Windows 98 users?

Alan
Thu Apr 08 07:10:48 CDT 2004

Yes, there are several.
Here are a few:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.apps
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.display.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.multimedia
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.setup

...Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.windowsme.general, "cmg"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>I do have one question. The main desktop P/C my wife and
>I use runs ME. I do have a laptop I use occasionally that
>runs Windows 98. Is there a specific newsgroup for
>Windows 98 users?
>
>Thanks,

Noel
Thu Apr 08 07:14:36 CDT 2004

You're welcome!

Your question re Win 98 NG's - yes there are a number of them.
You should be able to access them exactly the same way as you do the ME
ones - but you're be a LOT better off using the newsreader built into
Outlook express, than that awful CDO web-based interface!!!
Look here for instructions
http://www.aumha.org/win4/supp1b.htm

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's

"cmg" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1722201c41d60$b88e3590$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Over the past week or so, I have seen postings complaining
> about the "advice" given through this forum. I, for one,
> have posted a few times over the past year and your advice
> has been extremely helpful. I also periodically scan the
> postings and have picked-up a lot of valuable information.
> I used to be a computer user who "knew enough to be
> dangerous." Through this forum, I now know a lot more and
> have become less dangerous! Thanks for all your FREE
> (emphasis added) advice. It is truly appreciated.
>
> I do have one question. The main desktop P/C my wife and
> I use runs ME. I do have a laptop I use occasionally that
> runs Windows 98. Is there a specific newsgroup for
> Windows 98 users?
>
> Thanks,
>

Nanny
Fri Apr 09 05:53:14 CDT 2004

I feel the same way :-)

Nanny

"cmg" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:1722201c41d60$b88e3590$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Over the past week or so, I have seen postings complaining
> about the "advice" given through this forum. I, for one,
> have posted a few times over the past year and your advice
> has been extremely helpful. I also periodically scan the
> postings and have picked-up a lot of valuable information.
> I used to be a computer user who "knew enough to be
> dangerous." Through this forum, I now know a lot more and
> have become less dangerous! Thanks for all your FREE
> (emphasis added) advice. It is truly appreciated.
>
> I do have one question. The main desktop P/C my wife and
> I use runs ME. I do have a laptop I use occasionally that
> runs Windows 98. Is there a specific newsgroup for
> Windows 98 users?
>
> Thanks,
>