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.)