Read and rate the response link is blocked

[Del]

When I ask a question on this forum and check the "Notify me of replies" I
get a notification email but the "read and rate the response" link in the
email opens an empty page in the discussion group. This function used to
work. Can anyone help me fix it?

 

[John W. Vinson]

When I ask a question on this forum and check the "Notify me of replies" I
get a notification email but the "read and rate the response" link in the
email opens an empty page in the discussion group. This function used to
work. Can anyone help me fix it?

The Microsoft discussions webpage is *not the forum* (despite Microsoft's
effort to conceal that fact). It's a newsreader program, and frankly not a
very good one.

Many of the volunteers here never use the Discussions webpage at all; instead,
we use a Newsreader (I use Agent, some use Outlook Express or Windows Mail,
there are dozens of others) connected to the news server msnews.microsoft.com
or news.microsoft.com. These give the content of the messages but do not
support notification or rating of responses. The webpage, which does so, is
notoriously unreliable and buggy. I'd really recommend using a newsreader
instead!

 

[David W. Fenton]

Many of the volunteers here never use the Discussions webpage at
all; instead, we use a Newsreader (I use Agent, some use Outlook
Express or Windows Mail, there are dozens of others)

Actually, people using OE or Windows Mail are not using a news
reader -- they are using an email program that has been kludged to
barely handle newsgroups.

A good free news reader is xNews.

 

[shortstop643]

I had changed the text size in "advanced", i took the check out of that box ,
and the page loaded, if it had anything to do with it?
tks
tools/internet options/advanced// 2 boxes there for text size, i removed the
top one

 

[shortstop643]

You can copy and paste the link "READ AND RATE" , that is in the email
notification, into google and it will bring you to this page.

Thats.'s a little strange?