Problem with URL's in usenet postings

[Bob F]

Starting yesterday, when I click on a URL in a posting, it no longer goes to the
intended site. Instead, it goes to "res://ieframe.dll/syntax.htm#" and gives a
message "The address is not valid". I have it set up to open the page in a new
window.

Can anyone suggest what has changed or what I need to do to fix this?

WinXP SP3, IE8, AVG 8.5, Comodo Firewall 5.10

 

[VanguardLH]

When I click on a URL in a posting, it no longer goes to the
intended site. Instead, it goes to "res://ieframe.dll/syntax.htm#"
and gives a message "The address is not valid". I have it set up to
open the page in a new window.

WinXP SP3, IE8, AVG 8.5, Comodo Firewall 5.10

Perhaps handy info but you omitted the obvious: the NNTP client in
which you click on a URL [hyperlink]. WinXP is an OS. IE8 is a web
browser. AVG is an anti-virus program. Comodo Firewall is obviously
a firewall. None of those are NNTP clients.

When you create a shortcut on your desktop that goes to some site,
what happens when you double-click on that hyperlink shortcut?
Right-click on the desktop, New, Shortcut, specify somewhere (e.g.,
http://www.microsoft.com/), give it a name ("Test URL"), save it, and
then double-click on it. What happens?

 

[Bob F]

When I click on a URL in a posting, it no longer goes to the
intended site. Instead, it goes to "res://ieframe.dll/syntax.htm#"
and gives a message "The address is not valid". I have it set up to
open the page in a new window.

WinXP SP3, IE8, AVG 8.5, Comodo Firewall 5.10

Perhaps handy info but you omitted the obvious: the NNTP client in
which you click on a URL [hyperlink]. WinXP is an OS. IE8 is a web
browser. AVG is an anti-virus program. Comodo Firewall is obviously
a firewall. None of those are NNTP clients.

Oops! Outlook Express 6.

When you create a shortcut on your desktop that goes to some site,
what happens when you double-click on that hyperlink shortcut?
Right-click on the desktop, New, Shortcut, specify somewhere (e.g.,
http://www.microsoft.com/), give it a name ("Test URL"), save it, and
then double-click on it. What happens?

It works perfectly.

 

[VanguardLH]

Oops! Outlook Express 6.

I don't assume the NNTP client (specified in the headers of a post)
use to post about a problem is the same NNTP client with the problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929867
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823301

Are the newsgroups posts formatted in plain text or HTML format? If
HTML, look at the source of the post (Ctrl+F12) to see if the URL is
properly specified in the <A> tag, such as:

<a href="{URL}" {parms}>{comment}</a>

The comment is NOT the hyperlink (and how spammers/scammers can
mislead users as to where they go when they click the hyperlink). You
need to look at the href attribute to see where it points. It should
be enclosed in double-quotes but not necessary for most parsers
(unless the hyperlink contains a space which is illegal, anyway). For
an HTML formatted message, the URL hyperlink is specified by the href
attribute's value, not by the comment field. Could be the comment has
an okay looking URL but the href attribute does not.

Does hyperlinking not work in OE for all newsgroup posts with them,
especially in text-only newsgroups or where the posting is plain text?
Or does the problem show up only in HTML formatted posts?

By the way, OE has its own newsgroup at:

microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general