Microsoft Communities always wants me to Sign in??

[tjdarth]

I just happened upon Windows Mail on my new laptop and established a
connection for msnnews newsgroup. Everything was fine until I attempted to
send a response to one of the messages I had previously left on the board.
When I press the send button, I get a "Sign in to Microsoft Communities"
window asking for an e-mail address and a passwword?

I am curreently connected to the internet thru my Verizon FiOS isp service?
What iss causing this window to continually show itself? I am wondering if I
have inadvertently set a multipule flag in th options for this application. I
would like to get this app to recognize my current online statuse and
responed with the proper function of sending the msg without the intermittant
Sign-In Window. Can someone help me reswolve this issue?

Thanks in advance . . .
Tom J.

 

[John Inzer]

I just happened upon Windows Mail on my new laptop and established a
connection for msnnews newsgroup. Everything was fine until I
attempted to send a response to one of the messages I had previously
left on the board. When I press the send button, I get a "Sign in to
Microsoft Communities" window asking for an e-mail address and a
passwword?

I am curreently connected to the internet thru my Verizon FiOS isp
service? What iss causing this window to continually show itself? I
am wondering if I have inadvertently set a multipule flag in th
options for this application. I would like to get this app to
recognize my current online statuse and responed with the proper
function of sending the msg without the intermittant Sign-In Window.
Can someone help me reswolve this issue?

Thanks in advance . . .
Tom J.

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True...you are online with your ISP...but
in order to post to the MS Community
Newsgroups you must sign in with your
Windows Live ID / Passport. (and..you'll
have to sign in every time you access the site)

Windows Live ID
https://accountservices.passport.net/ppnetworkhome.srf

You may want to consider setting up
Windows Mail for newsgroup access...
then you would not have to access the
website.

The following article may be useful:

Windows Vista -
Accessing Newsgroups
With Windows Mail
http://tinyurl.com/3avt5q

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/695

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The Communities feature is rather buggy, and is best turned off.
Go to Tools, Options, uncheck "Use newsgroup message rating feature."