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Why so many "Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors here?
I'm accessing these groups thru the MS web interface at:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&lang=en&cr=US ....and as I'm trying to navigate the web pages to previous discussions, I'm getting a whole lot of "Service Temporarily Unavailable" web page errors. Is this a problem with firewall-type iissues, or is there something up with MS's web interface? I never used to get these (and come to think on it a bit more, I think I've been getting these errors from home too, so that should rule out any local corporate firewall issues.) |
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Why so many "Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors here?
The problem is on the server side, not us clients.
-- Gary''s Student - gsnu200840 "Grandpa Mark" wrote: I'm accessing these groups thru the MS web interface at: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&lang=en&cr=US ...and as I'm trying to navigate the web pages to previous discussions, I'm getting a whole lot of "Service Temporarily Unavailable" web page errors. Is this a problem with firewall-type iissues, or is there something up with MS's web interface? I never used to get these (and come to think on it a bit more, I think I've been getting these errors from home too, so that should rule out any local corporate firewall issues.) |
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Why so many "Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors here?
I think it is a web issue. I finally hooked up through Outlook Express
because of it. "Grandpa Mark" wrote in message ... I'm accessing these groups thru the MS web interface at: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&lang=en&cr=US ...and as I'm trying to navigate the web pages to previous discussions, I'm getting a whole lot of "Service Temporarily Unavailable" web page errors. Is this a problem with firewall-type iissues, or is there something up with MS's web interface? I never used to get these (and come to think on it a bit more, I think I've been getting these errors from home too, so that should rule out any local corporate firewall issues.) |
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Why so many "Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors here?
hi
it's microsoft. again! i have been using this interface since 2004 and have never had any problems but since november~ of last year, all of a sudden there just seems to be one problem after another. i tried switching to google groups but it's screwed up to. shows the replies to posts but not the original post. great. you have the solution but don't know what the probem was. i have contacted microsoft about this throught this site.. https://support.microsoft.com/contac...;1208&ws=mscom no reply yet. maybe that is screwed up too. maybe you may want to try it and lodge a complaint. and microsoft is on TV advertising how they can solve the worlds problems but can't seem to fix their own web interface. sigh. FSt1 "Grandpa Mark" wrote: I'm accessing these groups thru the MS web interface at: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&lang=en&cr=US ...and as I'm trying to navigate the web pages to previous discussions, I'm getting a whole lot of "Service Temporarily Unavailable" web page errors. Is this a problem with firewall-type iissues, or is there something up with MS's web interface? I never used to get these (and come to think on it a bit more, I think I've been getting these errors from home too, so that should rule out any local corporate firewall issues.) |
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Why so many "Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors here?
I get the same, as well as frequent search errors (it can't find posts that
I'm staring at in the list of posts on page 1). In addition, the user interface is poorly designed (I've been unable to sort results by date, unable to cross-post, etc.). Unfortunately, unlike JLG, I am unable to use NNTP (corporate firewall) so I'm stuck with this interface. If you are able, I definitely suggest Outlook Express or even a 3rd party like XNews to read these groups. I submitted my 'suggestions' to MS yesterday via the "contact us" link (I had to go to the main MS link because the one at the bottom of the newsgroup page returned a dead link for me). I have no idea whether this web interface is being updated or improved based on usability factors, but I can hope... Keith "Grandpa Mark" wrote: I'm accessing these groups thru the MS web interface at: http://www.microsoft.com/communities...&lang=en&cr=US ...and as I'm trying to navigate the web pages to previous discussions, I'm getting a whole lot of "Service Temporarily Unavailable" web page errors. Is this a problem with firewall-type iissues, or is there something up with MS's web interface? I never used to get these (and come to think on it a bit more, I think I've been getting these errors from home too, so that should rule out any local corporate firewall issues.) |
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Why so many "Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors here?
"FSt1" wrote:
i tried switching to google groups but it's screwed up to. shows the replies to posts but not the original post. And sometimes not the replies. I don't think the problem is with Google Groups per se. I think the problem is with the MS browser interface. Posts to the MS news server using OE seem to get to the Google Groups news server just fine. Of course, I cannot say that with impunity. There could random variables to consider; and arguably, Google Groups could be filtering based on various network path fields, which I'm not in a position to spoof. But considering how screwed up the MS browser interface is, there seems to be a higher probability that it's the culprit. This has been going on for years. But it seemed more intermittent in the past. Be that as it may, we're stuck with it. So I'm now using OE to access the MS news server directly. |
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Why so many "Service Temporarily Unavailable" errors here?
hi
i know it's not google. google is getting it's info streight from microsoft. that was the point i was trying to make...a bit poorly perhaps. but like i said.... it's microsoft. again! sigh. FSt1 "JoeU2004" wrote: "FSt1" wrote: i tried switching to google groups but it's screwed up to. shows the replies to posts but not the original post. And sometimes not the replies. I don't think the problem is with Google Groups per se. I think the problem is with the MS browser interface. Posts to the MS news server using OE seem to get to the Google Groups news server just fine. Of course, I cannot say that with impunity. There could random variables to consider; and arguably, Google Groups could be filtering based on various network path fields, which I'm not in a position to spoof. But considering how screwed up the MS browser interface is, there seems to be a higher probability that it's the culprit. This has been going on for years. But it seemed more intermittent in the past. Be that as it may, we're stuck with it. So I'm now using OE to access the MS news server directly. |
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