It's not a "list", it's a newsgroup. You do not need a password. Perhaps you
don't have an email account set up for the MS News Server, although it
should be set up by default to your default mail account. The easy way is
this:
Tools/Accounts/News/Microsoft News Server/Edit
and flip the "Email account" popup to any mail account you want. Do NOT
enter anything into the Account ID or Password boxes. Do NOT check the "This
server requires me to log on" box. The news server address should read:
msnews.microsoft.com
However, recently a lot of spam has been directed at people whose email
addresses appear in the public newsgroups. You should use a false email
address instead of your real one to avoid the spam. The way to do that is to
first create a dummy, send-only POP mail account:
Tools/Accounts/Mail/New/Configure manually
Male it a POP account, enter your real name but a false email address (I had
the word "spoof_" to my real domain"). Do not enter anything for POP server
or password, do enter your real SMTP server address (same as for your real
email address). If your ISP requires SMTP authentication, click the
"Advanced sending options" and check that and your password there. That's
it. Now go to the News account and choose this account as your email account
for the news server.
No, there is not a _mail_ mailing list for Excel. There is this newsgroup,
and many other Excel newsgroups, where you can great advice, I thought
that's what you wanted. You can get there on the web if you prefer, but as I
said, your messages will take a long tome to get propagated that way:
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=microsoft.public.mac.office.excel
It's much nicer using Entourage, especially if you plan to be going often to
the newsgroup and not just a once-off.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html
PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
> From: Mitch Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:05:58 -0800
> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Excel Email Users Group?
>
> Thanks Paul,
>
> I did navigate to the new list you were refering to, but I couldnąt get it
> to work. Entourage kept saying I needed a user name and password to get in..
>
> So there isn't a "email" user group for Excel like this one for Entourage?
>
> --
> Mitch Lewis
> Kennewick, WA
>
>> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:48:18 -0800
>> To: Entourage Mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: OT: Excel Email Users Group?
>>
>> On 12/16/03 9:20 AM, "Mitch Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I was wondering if there was a email users group like this one for Excel? I
>>> couldn't find it on the Mactopia website. In fact I couldn't find were I
>>> subscribed to the Entourage email list! :)
>>
>> You need to check out the Excel Mac newsgroup. Click on the Microsoft News
>> Server in the Folder List on the left and download the newsgroups list when
>> asked. You could type "excel" or "mac" into the search filter box if you
>> want. Select
>>
>> microsoft.public.mac.office.excel
>>
>> and whichever other of the many Excel groups and click "Subscribe" button..
>> (Most questions to do with Excel will not be Mac-specific and there are
>> many, many super experts on the other newsgroups as well as a few of our own
>> on the Mac one.) You'll also see newsgroups for Mac Word, PowerPoint,
>> Entourage, etc. and loads of non-Mac Word, PPT, VBA etc. etc. newsgroups.
>> It's a great resource. Then click on the newsgroup in the sublist that now
>> appears beneath the MS news server in the folder list, and there you are. To
>> dig deeper into the archives, keep pressing "More" button. To ask a question
>> of your own press the "New" News Message button and send like a mail
>> message. Check back a few minutes later to see your question appear, and not
>> long after answers will - hopefully -, start to appear. You can also get to
>> these newsgroups on the web, at Google, but it's better and quicker doing so
>> in Entourage or another newsreader.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Berkowitz
>> MVP Entourage
>> Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html
>>
>> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X.
>> It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
>>
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