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Paul
There are no SMTP and POP3 entries for a news server.
A news server has a single entry for both read and write.
To use the new Thunderbird:
1) Subscribe to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
2) Click the server name in the left pane, to expose the
subscribed list. That will cause the list to update.
2) Navigate to the message you want to reply to.
OK, Thunderbird is missing the Reply button at the top.
You can right click the button bar and select Customize.
Drag and Drop the "Reply" button from the icon palette.
onto the button bar.
When you click Reply, you should see your server identification
details in the top bar. The fields could look like...
Andy <[email protected]> nntp.aioe.org
and no separate field with an email address showing.
The word Newsgroup should be on the next line.
The idea is, to verify that you're sending a USENET
message, and not an email, by accident.
If you did all of that, and you got
441 Bad content
then you may be attempting to post HTML into a text-only
group. AIOE has more filters on the front end, than most
servers, and there is a "mine field" to navigate to
get a message sent. For example, if you attempt to
send a message with the same message body twice, the
second send attempt will be denied. And the error
text will be something that at first seems rather
meaningless. When that happens, just add an extra period
to one of your sentences, which changes the checksum
of the message body when it hits the server.
If you got an informative error message, please post
both the number and the error text.
Seeing a useful error message, means the message
did get to AIOE. If nothing seems to be leaving
Thunderbird at all, it could be that the message
is an email message and not a USENET message. And
the info at the top, will give you some idea whether
it's going to AIOE or not.
There are several flavors of Reply, and I think
one of them might be doing email or something.
Paul