OT? Newsgroup posts take long time to leave Outbox

[Gordon]

Using XP SP2, IE7.
I subscribe to groups on several news servers that are extraneous to the
news server run by my ISP, including msnews.microsoft.com. Every post I make
to groups on these servers leaves my Outbox almost instantaneously, EXCEPT
those I post to msnews.microsoft.com. These can take anything up to 30
seconds to leave the Outbox. Can anyone think why this should be, and is
there a fix?

 

[Gerry]

Gordon

When did you last Compact Outlook Express and run Disk Defragmenter?


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Hope this helps.

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[Gordon]

Gordon

When did you last Compact Outlook Express and run Disk Defragmenter?

This happens in Thunderbird as well.......

 

[Gerry]

Gordon

I know nothing about Thunderbird! Are you geting the problem using
Outlook Express? If yes what is the answer to my question?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Gordon]

Gordon

I know nothing about Thunderbird! Are you geting the problem using Outlook
Express? If yes what is the answer to my question?

I use both, and the phenomenon happens in both. Defragging the HDD has
nothing to do with this problem....

 

[Tim Slattery]

Using XP SP2, IE7.
I subscribe to groups on several news servers that are extraneous to the
news server run by my ISP, including msnews.microsoft.com. Every post I make
to groups on these servers leaves my Outbox almost instantaneously, EXCEPT
those I post to msnews.microsoft.com. These can take anything up to 30
seconds to leave the Outbox. Can anyone think why this should be, and is
there a fix?

I don' think this has anything to do with your computer, your
software, your network connection or anything on your end. The MS
server farm just takes a while to handle a new post. I use Agent to
read the groups. When I send a post off, Agent handles it in the
background and I can go back to reading other posts. I do notice that
the "Sending new post" progress bar stays around for 30 seconds or so,
like you've noticed.

 

[Unknown]

It is simply because msnews is a busy server.

 

[Gordon]

I don' think this has anything to do with your computer, your
software, your network connection or anything on your end. The MS
server farm just takes a while to handle a new post. I use Agent to
read the groups. When I send a post off, Agent handles it in the
background and I can go back to reading other posts. I do notice that
the "Sending new post" progress bar stays around for 30 seconds or so,
like you've noticed.

Interestingly, I'm posting this from an XP SP2 machine in a different
location on a different (8MB) broadband supplier and the posts leave the
outbox in one or two seconds....the broadband I usually connect to at home
is only 1MB....

 

[Gerry]

Same here Gordon.


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Gerry
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