"Rick Rothstein" wrote:
I'm at a complete loss because a response to my own Testing
message failed to be posted.

..... Using the same text that had failed previously and prompted you to post
this test thread?

My only means of posting to and reading from the MSNews server is Outlook
Express. So I cannot distinguish which one might be at fault.

I just did a network trace and confirmed that OE does indeed transmit the
"offending" message.

I was about to say more, but something very strange just happened. Clearly
I need to investigate further, trying to differentiate between MSNews
behavior and OE behavior and/or usage.


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"Rick Rothstein" wrote in message
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I'm at a complete loss because a response to my own Testing message failed
to be posted. I'm only guessing that this one will get through. I'm using
Windows Mail (Vista's equivalent to Outlook Express in earlier versions of
Windows).

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Rick (MVP - Excel)


"Joe User" <joeu2004 wrote in message
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Rick, I had a similar experience yesterday. In one particular thread,
one response of mine (a previous day) appeared, as did a test response,
but one particular response did not appear when I used the MSNews server.
I tried several times in a period about 24 hours; none appears even
today. But the exact same response (copy and paste) did appear on the
Google Groups and MS Discussion Groups servers when I posted it through
each server. (They still not appear on the MSNews server).

In m.p.test.here, I discovered that I could post the text of that
response as both a new message and a response using the MSNews server,
and the text of the response appeared on the MSNews server when I posted
a new message using Google Groups. (I could not get to m.p.test.here
using the MSDG server.) But if I tried to post a response to the GG
message using the MSNews server, it did not appear on any of the MSNews,
GG or MSDG servers, suggesting that the MSNews server dropped the
message.

My first thought was: the problem was due to a very long line that I had
in the text. But the response to the GG message continued to fail to
appear even if I broke up the line manually.

My suspicion is: the MSNews server is dropping some responses (only to
GG messages?!) if they have a certain form (TBD). That does not make
much sense to me. But it is the only explanation that I have so far that
fits all of the facts.


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"Rick Rothstein" wrote in message
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Sorry for doing this here, but I have to see if I can post into this
newsgroup... two of my posted answers in the thread with the subject
"Need Help with Alpha into Numeric expressions (not ASCII/ANSI/Etc." are
not showing up in my newsreader or the online Microsoft forum for this
newsgroup as far as I can tell... so I wanted to see if I have any
access at the current time or not.

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Rick (MVP - Excel)