Absurd login/verification on this newsgroup

[Guest]

How is it possible that Microsoft cannot keep us logged in to this site more
than a few minutes?
And then every post or response brings back a screen 10 minutes later from
the world's slowest server to verify the post before it actually goes through.

Haven't we passed through the 19th century yet?

 

[Guest]

we don't have a problem.

so there might be a remote
possibility that it is not the
world that has the issue.

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[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

How is it possible that Microsoft cannot keep us logged in to this site
more
than a few minutes?
And then every post or response brings back a screen 10 minutes later from
the world's slowest server to verify the post before it actually goes
through.

Haven't we passed through the 19th century yet?

Do you use a web interface? If yes then it would be time
for you to move into the 21st century and use a newsreader
such as Outlook Express. No timeout there, near-instant
response on all posts in any thread.

 

[Guest]

So you are saying that they can program for good servers and parts of the
world, but their programers cannot handle anything less than that? Not the
real world?

 

[Malke]

How is it possible that Microsoft cannot keep us logged in to this site more
than a few minutes?
And then every post or response brings back a screen 10 minutes later from
the world's slowest server to verify the post before it actually goes through.

Haven't we passed through the 19th century yet?

Pegasus has given you the short answer - use a real newsreader instead
of the dreadful, clunky web interface. Here are details to help you with
this:

Since you are using the web interface, you may not realize that this is
really a newsgroup. You will get far more out of this resource if you
learn to use a newsreader. There are many good newsreaders for Windows,
but you can use Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista) since you
already have it. Here are some links to information about newsgroups:

About Usenet:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ - Usenet FAQs from the Internet FAQ Archives
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html - The Seven Don'ts of Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/index.html - further reading on
Usenet, including recommended reading for netiquette issues
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet - a brief
explanation of newsgroups

Outlook Express/Windows Mail as Newsreader:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express Newsreader -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx
MVP John Barnett - Accessing Newsgroups With Windows Mail -
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessing_newsgrousp_with-windows_mail.htm

How to Post:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is
working properly
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/munad.htm - how to munge email address
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting - multiposting vs. crossposting

Other Newsreaders for Windows:
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php - for Forte
http://www.mozilla.org - Thunderbird
http://gravity.tbates.org/
http://www.40tude.com/dialog/
http://xnews.newsguy.com/


Malke

 

[Shenan Stanley]

How is it possible that Microsoft cannot keep us logged in to this
site more than a few minutes?
And then every post or response brings back a screen 10 minutes
later from the world's slowest server to verify the post before it
actually goes through.

Haven't we passed through the 19th century yet?

Looking at your headers:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000

This tells me youare using the Newsgroup Web Interface. It's old, it's
clunky, its unreliable and it has given trouble to thousands before you and
will give trouble to thousands after you.

It is my suggestion to you *not* to attempt to view these websites through
that out-dated/under-featured interface and to use a newsreader application
instead. Even if it is nothing more than Outlook Express - you will have a
better experience using that than you ever will using the web page interface
that is setup.

Setting up Outlook Express Newsreader
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

If you want to search for older posts than you may choose to keep on your
computer...
http://groups.google.com/

 

[HeyBub]

Do you use a web interface? If yes then it would be time
for you to move into the 21st century and use a newsreader
such as Outlook Express. No timeout there, near-instant
response on all posts in any thread.

Slight correction: "...you to move to the 20th Century and use a
newsreader..."

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

That also applies to the 21st century which we have been in for
several years.

 

[Guest]

I use the web interface, and have not had ANY timeout issues.

 

[HeyBub]

That also applies to the 21st century which we have been in for
several years.

Yes, but I distinctly remember using a newsread in the last century...

 

[NoConsequence]

Do you use a web interface? If yes then it would be time
for you to move into the 21st century and use a newsreader
such as Outlook Express. No timeout there, near-instant
response on all posts in any thread.

Good advice, but I wouldn't classify Outlook Express as a newsreader.

OE is a mail program that provides somewhat limited ability to read
usenet posts. I wouldn't even term it an "adequate" news program.
I'd call it a "better than the CDO Web Interface" program that is
barely adequate to read usenet posts. There are much better FREE and
very LLOOWW cost news readers out there that will make you wish you
never tried the OE news interface.

 

[Daave]

OE is a mail program that provides somewhat limited ability to read
usenet posts. I wouldn't even term it an "adequate" news program.
I'd call it a "better than the CDO Web Interface" program that is
barely adequate to read usenet posts. There are much better FREE
and very LLOOWW cost news readers out there that will make
you wish you never tried the OE news interface.

I've used several news readers, and I disagree; OE is plenty adequate to
read Usenet posts. Binaries, on the other hand, are a different story.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Yes, but I distinctly remember using a newsread in the last century...

So what? They still work better than a web interface for this stuff.

 

[Daave]

So what? They still work better than a web interface for this stuff.

It was a joke.