To help a little more I found this on the Microsoft site and done a copy and paste, so you now have another piece to the puzzle.
If your e-mail client is also a newsreader, you can use it to subscribe to, read messages from, and post messages to newsgroups, which are online discussions on practically any topic. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 makes newsgroup access easy. On the Go menu, simply click News. Internet Explorer automatically launches Microsoft Outlook Express and opens your newsgroups folder so you can get down to business.