Hi Steve,
FWIW, note that the newsgroups are accessible from a variety
of interfaces via websites and news servers
(including Microsoft's news://msnews.microsoft.com)
with folks using various tools to read and write
messages, including web browsers and MS Outlook Express
Only those folks who are accessing through the
Microsoft Communties interface, such as
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
would see [Yes] [No] buttons. There is no
requirement to use that interface to access or use
or 'maintain' the newsgroups.
[snip](To properly maintain the Newsgroup, click the YES or NO button on your
original posting to clear your entry, once you have or have not resolved this
issue with this correspondence thread - Steve.)>>
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Let us know if this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?

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