my posts dont show up

[Eli Aran]

i sent a post to the news group microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
and it hasnt arrived.
the next day i looked in my outlook express prog and saw that it was in the
sent items folder but did not arrive to the newsgroup
so i sent another post to the same ng and it showd up in the sent items
again but never reached the newsgroup.
my question is am i filtered out from this news group?
can i know if someone blocked my posts from arriving there?
thank you
p.s.
i cannot think of any other reasons why they wont show up there because when
i posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage
it arrived and i got a reply.

 

[Kath Adams]

i sent a post to the news group
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support and it hasnt arrived.
the next day i looked in my outlook express prog and saw that it was
in the sent items folder but did not arrive to the newsgroup
so i sent another post to the same ng and it showd up in the sent
items again but never reached the newsgroup.
my question is am i filtered out from this news group?
can i know if someone blocked my posts from arriving there?
thank you
p.s.
i cannot think of any other reasons why they wont show up there
because when i posted to
microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage
it arrived and i got a reply.

Are you completely sure that you have it configured correctly? No-one
can block your posts except MS and if your post was legit (not spam or
offensive) then it would not be blocked.

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

 

[Matthew Shaw]

I find that the news server has a habit of dropping some posts. IMO, since
help and support is a high volume newsgroup, there is a larger chance of the
server dropping them. You will get _some_ messages through...

 

[Eli Aran]

i see..
so its probably a question of the amount of activity on the specific server
at the time i was trying to add my input...
maybe too many people were connected to that server while i was trying to
myself.
thank you

 

[FrankV]

That may not be exactly the problem. I had the identical as you for a long
time and then it started working again. I found out what was wrong.

My default was news.verizon.net because of the service I use which is
verizon.net but when I manually changed it to msnews.microsoft.com the
problem started happening. When I finally realized that might be what was
wrong I changed back to news.verizon.net and messages I sent started working
again.

I could probably prove this by changing back to msnews and send a few
messages again that won't show.

Frank

p.s.; If this message doesn't show up then my solution was wrong.

 

[Kath Adams]

And I found it to be the opposite way round with my ISP! I used to
connect via my ISP's news server when I first started looking at
newsgroups, then wondered why quite a few posts were missing, not just
mine, but responses that didn't make sense etc. Once I subscribed to the
NG's via msnews.microsft.com, I have had no problems, which is why I
posted the link that I did in my first post.

 

[FrankV]

I shouldn't have said mine is working now. The response I sent never got to
me but your message did. Oh Well. I guess there is nothing I can do about
it.

I've been reading news groups from the beginning and this is the first time
this problem has ever shown up.

Frank

 

[Eli Aran]

well...
i re-posted to that group for the third time now, and this is arround the
sixth day after the first time and my post simply would not get in there!
how bizzare...

I shouldn't have said mine is working now. The response I sent never got to
me but your message did. Oh Well. I guess there is nothing I can do about
it.

I've been reading news groups from the beginning and this is the first time
this problem has ever shown up.

Frank