Outlook is an email client--it isn't an Internet Service Provider. Joan In a message dated 1/26/2009 1:29:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: PS I didn't know Outlook was an Internet provider, too, I thought it was just something you could use on your hard drive, so that you could work offline on your emails, and organize them better_without leaving them out there on the Net.