I was very interested in MAPILab, as I thought it was the answer to my
prayers, but it doesn't seem so.

I was able to set it up ok, and subscribe to newsgroups, but forget about
trying to get the messages.  First off, I thought it would allow downloading
only headers.  The first time I tried it, everything was being downloaded
into my inbox.  I had about 3000 headers in my inbox before I cancelled it.

So Now, I just reinstalled XP and everything, I figured I'd give it another
go, I set up the news account, subscribed to groups, but when I try to
download the messages, it downloads EVERYTHING, at maybe  1 message per
second, and takes FOREVER to get anything. Messages aren't threaded, and
trying to cancel retrieval of news messages still leaves it running in the
background, where I have to manually kill the Outlook process and reboot.

It doesn't make sense to download all messages in every subscribed group
from a news server, especially the MS groups which frequently contain many
thousands of messages. And on my paid news service (giganews), I subscribe
to about 2 dozen groups, many binary groups.

I just wish that, for those of us who DO want it, they would integrate an OE
style news reader into Outlook. It's not only corporate environments that
use Outlook. If that's the belief, then why is Windows Messenger installed?
I didn't understand why all the new DELL machines my company got for us, all
have Windows Messenger installed and enabled.