Posting to this group - problems

[Jerry]

I get the following when posting to a group:

Your message was successfully posted. However, Windows Mail was unable to
contact the community server, so rating, category, and other community
information was not included with the message. See the News error log for
details. Subject 'Search stopped working', Account: 'Microsoft Communities',
Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No,
Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D

It was working OK before. What gives?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Jerry,

That service has been down for nearly a week. While you can still read and
post, you simply cannot use the enhanced community features. Microsoft is
aware of the issue, but I haven't seen any estimations on when it will be
fixed. To avoid the error messages, click tools/options and on the general
tab uncheck the line to use newsgroup rating features.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Marco Desloovere]

I get the following when posting to a group:

Your message was successfully posted. However, Windows Mail was unable to
contact the community server, so rating, category, and other community
information was not included with the message. See the News error log for
details. Subject 'Search stopped working', Account: 'Microsoft Communities',
Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No,
Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D

It was working OK before. What gives?

Just out of curiosity, why are you using port 80 (HTTP) instead of
port 119 (NNTP)?

Marco

 

[Jerry]

Strange. I am actually using port 119.

Just out of curiosity, why are you using port 80 (HTTP) instead of
port 119 (NNTP)?

Marco

 

[Marco Desloovere]

Strange. I am actually using port 119.

Not according to the error message you posted.

Marco

 

[Guest]

hi reading through this thread i picked up on a question about ''why port 80
not 119''can you tell me what the difference is as this is something i was
not aware of ,and should i change mine ,thanks

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Marco,

I suspect that this is why the message posts, but he gets an error. The
message goes through 119, but the community features rely on 80.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Jerry]

Confirming once again: even though the error message says 80, my setting is
119.

 

[Marco Desloovere]

Hi Marco,

I suspect that this is why the message posts, but he gets an error. The
message goes through 119, but the community features rely on 80.

OK, thank you, and that led me to do a little research. Posting via the
Microsoft Communities, messages get in fact posted to the Usenet and the
web as well. For example this thread:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...56581a4e6df&cat=&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&p=1

Is Microsoft trying to take over the Usenet now? ;-)

Marco

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Marco,

Microsoft has long offered both interfaces (NNTP and Web access) to their
support forums. Windows Mail is the first client (at least that I know of)
that begins to offer bits of each's features. Personally, I prefer to use
only NNTP (which is why web users don't see that little MVP icon associated
with my posts).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Marco Desloovere]

Hi Marco,

Microsoft has long offered both interfaces (NNTP and Web access) to their
support forums. Windows Mail is the first client (at least that I know of)
that begins to offer bits of each's features.

Using the web interface it is also possible to score the post by
replying whether the post was helpful or not.

Personally, I prefer to use
only NNTP (which is why web users don't see that little MVP icon associated
with my posts).

I also prefer NNTP, but which little MVP icon do you mean?
I was expecting something in the form of a nutshell. ;-)

Marco

 

[Marco Desloovere]

Correct, but I've never put much stock in those ratings, nor do I have a
need for them. However, Microsoft either feels there is a need, or is
providing it as a service to their customers to assist in finding
appropriate answers to their issues.

What if more and more people start finding the rants and other flames
helpful. Screwing up those ratings would then just be a click away.

<g> You'll see it after the names of MVP's that use that ratings feature and
log on, attached is a capture.gif example of one.

Because of that attachment I almost missed your post - I had to download
it from the Microsoft news server. My ISP's news server does not accept
attachments in Usenet posts anymore.
The attachment is missing from your post on the MS Communities web site.

There are other MVP icons around:

http://www.mvps.org/images/mvpani.gif
http://www.bnetwiki.org/wiki/MVP

Marco