I found a tool from an outfit called MAPILab that allows you to integrate NNTP newsgroups into outlook. I've been playing with their MAPILab NNTP for a bit now, and while you have to make outlook jump through a bit of hoops to make it behave like a threaded newsreader, hide read msgs, etc, it's pretty nice. I'm not too terribly clear on whether they have built-in purging of messages or not - I turned to the autoarchive tool to do that for me.   I'll post back in a few days afte...