Thanks, Michael,
(1) I checked and "show all msgs" was not checked. I checked it and
retried and no help.
(2) I had already checked "Blocked Senders" in case during a senior moment I
had killfiled myself, but no, I hadn't.
(3) I had already spent some serious time with Comcast Support to no avail.
The person didn't seem too familiar with newsgroup issues and seemed to be
reading from some reference work that she wasn't familiar with. she referred
my problem to someone smarter and gave me a reference number. I'm supposed
to hear back some time and if not I'll simply refer to the refernce number
to see how they're making out with it.
(4) This sounds good , but remember ..I can *always* post successfully on
Ngs on the Microsoft news server,
and I can *never* post successully on Comcast news servers.
(5) I'm a greenhorn on a lot of computer stuff and have never tried the
Clean up now and reset that you suggest.
I'm a bit chicken on this maneuver, worried that "clean up" may clean up
more than I want cleaned up.
If I do click on "Clean up now" does that open something up that enables me
to select what NG or server I want to RESET?
It reminds me of the old saying "when you find yourself in a hole STOP
DIGGING."
Thanks very much for your help and advice.
Fred
"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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That the message moved to the Sent Items folder means that OE got
confirmation that the news server initially accepted the message.
Several things could cause the message to not be visible to you.
1) View, Current View settings for the newsgroup is not showing all
messages. Although if this were the issue, you'd likely miss a lot more
than just your posts.
2) Tools, Message Rules, Blocked Sender List, News you are blocking
yourself
3) After initially accepting your message, a later filter at the news
server rejected it. You'll get no notification of this. You'd have to
check with your ISP for their filtering rules.
4) Larger ISPs have multiple news servers under the same name. They are
supposed to stay in-synch with each other but some times get out-of-synch.
Each time you connect to the news server you might get a different
physical server and so might miss your posts, among others.
5) Your OE data store is corrupted. Try Tools, Options, Maintenance,
Clean up Now and RESET the problem newsgroup or news server. This might
also help with problem # 4.
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"bayskater" wrote in message
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hi,
up til about a week ago I was able to post ok to newsgroups using OE6 and
newsroups.comcast.net.
Now my attempts at posting to any of the NGs via Comcast.net do not show
up in the NGs. I see them In OE Sent Items oK and I don't get any error
messages but not on the NG itself. Experimenting I found that my posts DO
get through on the news.microsoft.com server as this post is.
I've checked the settings in OE Tools/Accts/ news and all appear OK.
Logically, since my posts are OK in Microsoft's news server, but not in
Comcast's news server, it seems it should follow that my computer is OK
as is my typing finger and my OE and the culprit would seem to be the
Comcast server. I Just spent a fabulous half hour with Comcast support
and got nowhere. They have referred it up to their advanced department
and gave me a reference number.
In the hope that im might ring a bell with someone on this NG I thought
I'd give it a try.
Using Windows XP, News NNTP 119.
One possible (?) clue:
In OE Tools/ Accounts/ News, where in the "connection" column for the MS
server(which works) it says "Local Area Network" and in the connection
column for Comcast it says "any available".
Thanks for any help.
I'm subscribed to thirty NG's visa Comcast and I'm able to access them OK
and they are current. Just can't post in them
Fred