Mystery solved! Thank you Robert!! I immediately stopped my popup blocker
temporarily and...the new thread OPENED! So sorry I forgot to show my data
probably because I'm upset for having "hijacked" someone. Here it is:

winXP Pro; OE 6.0; IE 6.0; Dell Dimension XPS T450MHz Pentium III; Norton
AV; Google toolbar...when it doesn't disappear! (Don't need XPpro, last
techi installed & charged accordingly)

NOTE: I copied below your last msg (wonder why the system didn't do it?

I came to THIS forum because my servers said it's Outlook Express' fault
after they tested ok the cable modem, email properties, etc., and I couldn't
find any especially OE forum.

MY ORIGINAL PROBLEM: At least one of my 3 identities hasn't been sending out
msgs at all with or without attachments for the last 2 months! They stay
forever in the outbox. I've been at forums and tried just about EVERYTHING!
I get this error msg:

The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected
by the server. The rejected e-mail address was @cs.com'. Subject 'Fw: BRAVO
JILL ROBINSON for GREAT SYMPOSIUM to HELP CHINESE CATS/DOGS!!!!!!!!!',
Account: 'pop.rcn.com', Server: 'smtp.rcn.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server
Response: '452 #4.5.3 Too many recipients.', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No,
Server Error: 452, Error Number: 0x800CCC79

It says "452 too many" but my biggest emailing is of only 230 recipients. I
split this amount but I got same error. The first part of the msg doesn't
apply. The earlier error msgs 0x800CCC79 included this "should be up to 400"
or something to that effect, which means they allowed up to 400, yet my 230
or even half of it didn't get sent out either. Seems they've changed it!!!
I'm very puzzled and no one is taking responsibility It's impossible to
contact direclty Microsoft.

I apologize again for the hijacking, and thanks ever so much for any
suggestions to this complicated problem! Adela


I COPIED YOUR MSG HE
Yes. On the "MS Communities web interface to Newsgroups"
E.g. on the web page that you are still using to send replies with. ; )
If you ever want to start your own discussion, instead of hijacking
someone else's thread, using that site, click on New [Start a new thread],
and wait for a small dropdown menu to appear there.
That's what it looks like but it's really implemented by a tiny popup window.
Hence, if you have popup blockers active you may only be able
to see that menu if you make sure that the popup blockers allow it.

And please explain this too: "Alternatively modify the popup blocker to
allow popups from that site." Do you mean to enable again the popup
function (if I had it and had it disabled)?

Are you saying you still don't see the New button's menu
after disabling *all* your popup blockers? Did you try using Ctrl- Click
(e.g. with IE6sp2) or Ctrl+Alt- (with IE7) just in case it is still
active?

Hmm... I just tried changing IE7's popup blocker to High level and found
that the New menu *still* appears, so perhaps that isn't the implementation
after all.

BTW I just noticed that you haven't disclosed *any* information about
either your OS or your browser so I may be wasting my time guessing
about this. E.g. if you're not using IE as your browser when posting
or you're not allowing Scripting and ActiveX controls you would also
have difficulty using the site.



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