On Sep 27, 5:02 am, "Jon Peltier"
wrote:
"JE McGimpsey" wrote:
"David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote:

Blank messages are often rejected- Hide quoted text -

By whom or what?

Some web interfaces don't let you reply to a blank message,
some don't even show messages with no body. This is anecdotal
information I've heard from others; I don't have firsthand experience

I access these newsgroups by using IE6 to go to either
groups.google.com or
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.aspx .

When I use www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups, I cannot reply to
messages with an empty body. Moreover, that lame interface fails to
display the entire subject line unless I open a reply window. Given
that, I wish the www.microsoft.com news servers would reject (not
store) such messages in the first place, whether they originate with
those news servers or they come in from elsewhere.

Some messages that are posted to these newsgroups by some means (TBD)
do not seem to find their way to the Google Groups news servers. No
way to tell if they are rejected by the Google Groups news servers, or
if they simply never leave the originating news server. I do see them
when I go to www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups -- but that
might be the originating news server.

In any case, I do not remember if those messages that fail to be seen
in Google Groups follow a specific pattern -- for example, an empty
body. I suspect not. I believe that even some of my postings to
www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups have failed to appear in
Google Groups.