Setting News Options

You saw in the last chapter that Outlook Express has many options and settings that enable you to customize aspects of the Outlook Express email client. There are also quite a few options related to newsgroups, and this section runs through them all.

Options for Newsgroups and Messages

The options related to newsgroups and messages are in the Options dialog box, which you can get to by selecting the Tools | Options command.

The General Options

The General tab contains just two Usenet-related settings (see Chapter 34, “Outlook Express and Internet Email,” for explanations of the other options in this tab):

Make Outlook Express my default news reader: If you activate this check box, Outlook Express loads whenever you run your ...

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