"bthpratt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> From: "saberman" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> Subject: Messages Don't Post
> Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008 6:50 PM
>
> This may be an exercise in futility but...
>
> Microsoft Vista Mail randomly decides not to actually post messages even
> though the Sent Items folder shows them as posted. For example the
> message
> below was supposedly posted to the microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
> news
> group on October 19, 1008 9:43 PM. But it does not show up in any
> downloaded messages.
>
> Some messages actually post and some do not. If this one does can someone
> please tell me why Vistal Mail is so unreliable in posting to news groups.
>
> Thanks.
>
> From: "saberman" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> Subject: News Group Messages Missing
> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008 9:43 PM
>
> Windows Vista Mail Version 6.0.6000.16386
> Vista SP1
>
> I am trying to use Windows Vista Mail as a News Group reader and seem to
> be
> having some problems:
>
> 1. There does not appear to be a way to get it to read old messages in a
> newly subscribed news group. For example I added this news group
> (microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail) to my subscribed set of news groups
> today. When I first clicked on it there were over 11K messages in the
> news
> group according the the number next to it but only messages sent since
> 10/18/2008 7:36 PM were available. I tried changing Synchronize from
> Don't
> Synchronize to All Messages but it had no affect. The option that had any
> effect was Catch Up and that simply downloaded the messages since
> 10/18/2008
> 7:36 PM.
>
> 2. It does not appear to show messages even when they are current. For
> example, I posted a thread beginning on 10/4/2008 6:26 PM in the
> microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group. The thread continued
> for
> a few days and I noticed that I saw a response to a message I had posted
> but
> the message itself was not shown my Windows Vista Mail. (I was able to
> get
> the entire thread using Agent.)
>
> 3. It does not appear to post messages even when it says it does. I
> posted
> a message in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group in response
> to someone's question on 10/8/2008 2:40 AM (which is in my Sent Items
> folder). It does not show up when the news group is view using either
> Windows Vista Mail (which might not mean much) or Agent (which would have
> shown it if it was there.).
>
> Finally, I did receive on error message while posting something to a
> Microsoft news group:
> "Your message was successfully posted. However, Windows Mail was unable to
> contact the community server, so rating, category, and other community
> information was not included with the message. See the News error log for
> details. Subject 'How To Resend A News Group Message?', Account:
> 'Microsoft
> Communities', Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80,
> Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D"
>
> I posted this in another news group and was advised to turn the community
> features off but was not told how.
>
> What are the community features and how do I turn them off?
>
Because it's posting to the Web first and the Web interface is not synching
properly. Go to Tools | Options and uncheck "Use newsgroup rating
features".
--
Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
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