MAPILab NNTP for Outlook helps keep all your info in one place
Like many Outlook users who read Usenet and other newsgroups (NNTP), I've always assumed that I was forced to use Outlook Express for aggregating and reading these information sources. Sure, you can do this in a browser too, but I like to save interesting posts for future reference and that's far easier in a client application with local storage. But it's a chore to have to switch to OE just for news and I've always wanted a way to have all of my informationm - e-mails, RSS, news, calendar, tasks, and contacts - in one place. NewsGator takes care of the RSS piece of this puzzle and now I have MAPILab NNTP for Outlook solving the news piece.
This is not really an Outlook add-in in the usual sense. As the MAPILab site points out, this tool adds a full NNTP transport layer to the Outlook subsystem. You add an acccount to your Outlook setup in much the same way you would add another e-mail account. Once the account for the news server is set up, you can pull down a list of the newsgroups the server offers acess to and subscribe to those that interest you. The MAPILab site offers an excellent animated tutorial that tells you pretty much everything you need to know to get things up and running.
You can evaluate MAPILab NNTP for Outlook for 30 days. A single license costs $24.00. If you use Outlook and read NNTP news, that's a nominal price to pay to say farewell to Outlook Express as a newsreader.