MSN's "Featured discussions" might be confusing to users not familiar with this page. The bottom line, "Type a discussion topic," could be overlooked, causing users to miss the search tool hidden under the status bar:

Below is MSN's "newsgroup search page" minus the above assortment of suggested topics:
To locate this page, use your "go to" key. Erase the http:// and type NEWS: (that's news with a colon). Click that, then go to "Look for" on the sidebar.
Save the resulting page in Favorites for future use..
http://www.oocities.org/webtvee/Home.html