Kevin,
Thanks for your reply. I will check out some newsgroups at m$. Are there any newsgroups in particular that you would reccomend over other ones?
I have not used newsgroups since the mid 90's because of the fact that you stated, but i will look into it since you reccomend it.

Sincerely,
Einar

>Hi, Einar,
>
>I second Bonnie's response...GotDotNet has an excellent message board.
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>In addition, the newsgroups on microsoft's public news server are pretty good. Newsgroups in general can be a bit 'nasty', but msnews is generally pretty decent.
>
>Kevin