What did I do wrong?

[Charles W Davis]

I sent a reply a few minutes ago and received this error message?

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 'Re: drop-down list', Account: 'Microsoft Communities',
Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No,
Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D

 

[David Berry]

Nothing. Windows Mail on Vista allows you to sign in with your Windows Live
ID and then you're able to rate posts. If the server is down, which seems
to happen a lot, you get that error. If you go into Tools, Properties you
can turn off the Windows Live feature if you don't want to use it.
Otherwise ignore the error.

 

[Charles W Davis]

Thank you.

Nothing. Windows Mail on Vista allows you to sign in with your Windows
Live ID and then you're able to rate posts. If the server is down, which
seems to happen a lot, you get that error. If you go into Tools,
Properties you can turn off the Windows Live feature if you don't want to
use it. Otherwise ignore the error.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You didn't necessarily do anything wrong. The message states that "Windows
Mail was unable to contact the community server." I presume you're using
Windows Mail to view Newsgroups. The community server is on a web server
somewhere at Microsoft, and apparently, although your post was certainly
posted, all of the extra data that Windows Mail tries to add didn't make it.
This could have been caused by any number of network issues at any point
between your machine and the community server. No biggie.

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Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP

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