Beverly Howard wrote:

>>> No longer available in the Msnews <<
>
> Not sure what the "scroll time" for all of the msnews servers are,

It's always been rather short. At present this group starts with Feb
27.

> but, for several years, google groups has mirrored all of the msnews
> sections.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...tabletpc?hl=en
>
> And, they have full (and good) forum message search capabilities back
> to the google groups start date.

I know.
But I really hate to change from the NewsReader to Google.
BTW: Do you know the syntax to
(a) call a certain thread directly?
(b) call a posting directly with the MID?

TIA
Rainald