Mike H -- yours is an encouraging post ... it's nice to know others are
watching.

I was able to succesfully post my original message to ms.public.test
*after* I went through and put a space between every letter --- with VBA
that wasn't a big deal, and it was easier (for me) than trying to guess
what the offending text was/is.

I figure to sit back a day or two and see what Joe User comes up with.

Clif

"Mike H" wrote in message
...
Joe user,

This is an interesting thread, can you keep your response to the email
in
the group so we can all see it.
--
Mike

When competing hypotheses are otherwise equal, adopt the hypothesis
that
introduces the fewest assumptions while still sufficiently answering
the
question.


"Joe User" wrote:

"Clif McIrvin" wrote:
As I have attempted sending as a new post, as pasting into a
reply to this thread, and actually re-typing the entire message
on the possibility that some offensive non-printable sequence
had become embedded and all have failed, I will follow your
other suggestion and see what happens in the test group.

If you are saying you are still unable to post your intended message,
and it
does not contain any of the known "offensive" text (hogwash!), feel
free to
send the intended posting to me, and I will isolate the "offensive"
content
or other root cause of the problem. I monitor the TCP/NNTP protocol,
so I
know exactly what is going on.

Ideally, use Forward As Attachment (right click) to attach the failed
posting from your Sent Items folder. Send it to joeu2004 "at"
hotmail.com.


----- original message -----

"Clif McIrvin" wrote in message
...
Very helpful information ... I was suspecitng deletion based on
contents
... but so far have not ciphered out what the offending text might
be.

As I have attempted sending as a new post, as pasting into a reply
to this
thread, and actually re-typing the entire message on the
possibility that
some offensive non-printable sequence had become embedded and all
have
failed, I will follow your other suggestion and see what happens in
the
test group.

I did post here instead of the test group on purpose, knowing that,
strictly speaking, I was out of protocol.

Thanks for your kind reply.

Clif

"Joe User" <joeu2004 wrote in message
...
"Clif McIrvin" wrote:
I'm not used to having trouble posting via NNTP using
Outlook Express.

I have uncovered two instances wherein the MSnews server seems to
remove
articles that contain certain text (anywhere in the ASCII form of
the
message, not just the body).

Removal is usually almost instantaneous; but sometimes an article
persists for several minutes. This is why we sometimes see
"deleted from
server" messages in OE.

As I recall, one instance is if the message contains the substring
"X Y
Z" without the interstitial spaces. Of course "X Y Z" is a common
example name.

Another instance is if the message contains the substring "o n o"
without
the interstitial spaces. Tony Valko (Biff) encountered this when
he used
the word astro n omical".

It is better to use microsoft.public.test.here for test posts.
Yes, some
problems could be newsgroup-specific. But that is very rare, if
ever.

(Some NG have different expiration criteria.)






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