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Looks like you figured how to get here. You are posting using athenanews.com. According to this page

they carry this newsgroup.

If I am posting using athenanews.com, I am unaware of how. I am using my Rockryno.com membership. Secondly, I can use RSS feeds with one of the other groups on this site, but not this one. I do not understand.

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Are you using Windows live mail or your browser to post these messages?

I would look at my second link and setup Windows Live mail with the information provided.

I am using my browser.

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For rss, I have tried

And some other variations on these themes. Each time I receive a message about "...is not a valid rss feed."

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And that is a correct response. This is a newsgroup. Newsgroups do not do RSS feeds.

Your choices are to stick with the browser method or configure a newsreader software (outlook express/windows mail, Thunderbird, Forte Agent, to name a few) to access the newsgroup on the athenanews.com server.

Actually you can get an RSS feed into Windows Mail (and probably other software) out of Google Groups. I did it and I didn't like it. The main issues I had is that I needed to log into Google Groups if I wanted to post a reply and I prefer to not have my Google Account listed, nor did I want a throw away account plus not enough of the message was displayed. I did take me to Google Groups automatically if I wanted to see more of the message or post a response.

There is an add-in for Outlook 2007 where I get Newsgroup feeds into Outlook - much like Windows Mail. The license is $24. I am using it on a trial basis for 30 days. I like it so far as it means that I don't have to jump to a separate application. More information can be found here:

Oilcan

-----Original Message----- From: Laura [mailto: snipped-for-privacy@sample.invalid] Posted At: Monday, March 31, 2008 7:51 AM Posted To: alt.comp.software.financial.quicken Conversation: Subscription Subject: Re: Subscription

And that is a correct response. This is a newsgroup. Newsgroups do not do RSS feeds.

Your choices are to stick with the browser method or configure a newsreader software (outlook express/windows mail, Thunderbird, Forte Agent, to name a few) to access the newsgroup on the athenanews.com server.

messages?

My personal belief is if you are going to get involved with newsgroups then the only way to read and reply to them is by using a newsreader software. It does require having access to a newsgroup server but there are free and low cost newservers available. Webnews like google groups just does not cut it for me. ymmv

Thank you for taking the time to respond to my questions and issues. I truly appreciate your help and the help of the other person who responded.

If newsgroups do not do RSS Feeds, then why was I able to add one of the other newsgroups on this site (Rockryno.com)as an RSS Feed. Also why do I see the RSS Feed symbol prominently displayed next to the Group listing for all the group here and also near this one in "My Groups."

I guess I do not understand the difference between this Rockryno.com site and athenanews.com. I thought when I signed up for Rockryno.com I would be signing up for access to the server through my newsreader in Windows Live Mail. I have other free newsgroup accounts available there. I do have have a Google account and I am signed up for this newsgroup there, but I cannot figure out how to get that to show up in Windows Live Mail either. Some how I'm missing some key piece of information, and I've tried to find an answer with Google help but cannot seem to find it.

The last time I checked the Contact form displayed errors as well.

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Normally newsgroups are carried by news servers. It has only been within the past few years that accessing newsgroups via web pages has become popular. Google Groups (formerly known as DejaNews) started it years ago. RSS feeds into windows mail is trying to replicate using a news server. One drawback with RSS feeds is that they are read only. If you want to post you have to go back to google groups or through a real news server. Some how Rockryno.com is accessing the athena news server when you post. (I can tell from your headers).

Merrily,

Newsgroups are part of Usenet, and are hosted on various servers that propagate postings among themselves. Various sites may provide access to these newsgroups through their own front-end web based portals, but these are of their own design, and not part of the Usenet newsgroup structure. Newsreaders access a news server directly to download desired headers and content from groups of interest hosted on their provider's servers.

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Len Agoado snipped-for-privacy@msn.com

Outlook Express has been bundled into every copy of Windows for at least a decade; Windows Mail is the updated version in every copy of Vista. (OE won't run on Vista; WM won't run on anything else.) Most of us who have tried the newer Windows Live Mail like it better than either OE or WM - and it will run on both WinXP and Vista. In fact, we can run WLM side-by-side with OE or WM, although I don't see why anyone would after a brief transition period.

OE/WM/WLM all include a newsreader, which I much prefer to the web-based (browser) interface for reading newsgroups.

In addition to the thousands of free news servers that offer more than

100,000 newsgroups (last time I checked was years ago), Microsoft hosts over 2,000 NGs for peer-to-peer support of MS products on its public news server (msnews.microsoft.com), which is free and does not require you to log on. Many of the other news servers (also known by several other names, such as Forums or Discussion Groups) "slurp" messages from the host servers and relay them - and any responses - to and from their own subscribers (often without disclosing their Microsoft source).

WLM includes access to RSS feeds, but I've not yet learned much about blogs and RSS feeds so I don't know how those relate to newsgroups.

RC

"Leonard Agoado" wrote in news:c9idnQJ-

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and the newsgroup news.software.readers

And your chance of your question being seen is much reduced if you post from Google Groups as more and more people are getting fed up with Google's support of spam and are joining the Usenet Improvement Project. See link in signature.