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In lugnet.general, lego@poindexter.cc (Mike Poindexter) writes:
> [...]
> Todd, could you fix this somehow so that I may post from Outlook Express?
> Perhaps set my "account" to match what OE sends in the message header or
> however it is.
> [...]
Mike, what you are asking for is a modification to the newsserver in order
to work around a bug in Microsoft Outlook Express.
That bug -- and I have no idea how or why it manifests itself -- only that
most people don't see it, yet several people have -- is that MSOE sometimes
drops the username when you post, and only sends your email address, and
worse, it sometimes sends garbage. For example, MSOE has incorrectly sent
these when you have posted:
From: lego@poindexter.cc
and
From: <"Mike Poindexter" <lego@poindexter.cc>>
and
From: "ÐÇ" <lego@poindexter.cc>
and
From: "Æø" <lego@poindexter.cc>
And you have (presumably) filled out your personal configuration such that
it -should- be sending either:
From: Mike Poindexter <lego@poindexter.cc>
or
From: lego@poindexter.cc (Mike Poindexter)
(I can't imagine that you and 10 other people have all put the same types of
garbage into your configuration dialogs. :-) So this is nothing more than
a really horrible, terrible bug in MSOE.
Yes, you -can- post to other newsservers which aren't picky about bugs like
this, but for now I can only suggest that you try reinstalling MSOE (this
worked for at least one person) or switching to a different newsreader.
(There are several very high-quality Windows newsreaders out there, so MSOE
isn't your only option.)
Alternatively, you might contact Microsoft and see if they have a bug-fix or
a more recent version of MSOE that you could download. Mike Stanley has
succeeded in getting MSOE to work very well (several times), so maybe you
simply have an obsolete version of it...?
--Todd
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