Why Can't I Post to This NG

[eBob.com]

From another computer I cannot post to this newsgroup. It can however post
to microsoft.public.test! It had been using msnews.microsoft.com, but since
the computer I can post from (the one I am using to post this message) was
using news.microsoft.com I have changed it to use news.microsoft.com. But
still my messages are not getting there.

In researching the problem I came across a note saying that it might help to
"reset" the newsgroup. But if I right click on a newsgroup there is no
reset choice. (I am using the version of OE that came with Vista on the
machine which cannot post.)

This has been driving me nuts for 3 days. I sure hope someone can help.

Thanks, Bob

 

[mayayana]

For what it's worth, MS servers have been
mysteriously ramshackle for a long time, acting
up in spurts. I don't understand how it works, but
periodically I'll have trouble getting posts to go
through, repeatedly. It will then work if I put a
space between each character, so I figure it's
some kind of wacky spam filter. (Someone else
once tried coverting his whole post to character
code functions, and that also got it through.

But then all of my posts show up on Google groups,
even though I posted them directly to MS servers!
So MS forwards the "spam" but doesn't post it? I still
can't figure that out.

Then again, these are the same people who repeatedly
break the links on their webpages without adding a
forwarding link, and who periodically change the whole
layout of the MS and MSDN webpages -- yet every new
version is as bloated and dysfunctional as the last. With
their latest MSDN design I get no scrollbar with script
disabled. I have to Select All, copy, and then read the
page in Notepad. With their last design I got a gray
box on the right side, so I guess their current effort is an
improvement. And thanks to Google I at least can find
the page, even if I can't read it.

I'm hoping that someone high up in Microsoft will
realize that the Internet is likely to play a big role in
the future.