Are newsgroups really read-only in WLM 2011? I have been unable to find any way to reply to a NG post. Via File | New | News Message, you can start a new thread(and you can add that command to the QAT), but there seems to be no way to reply to a post (I absent-mindedly hit Reply earlier today, but that creates an email to the poster, which I figured out when it bounced).

Also, is there no way to set Hide Read Messages as a permanent default view for NGs?