Re: [OT] Headers for NG messages

"Yowie" <yowie9644.DIESPAMDIE@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I'm hoping someone more knowledgable than I can help.
>
>I only have access to Outlook Express at work, so please don't tell me to
>get a better newsreader.
>
>For some odd reason that probably has something to do with our internet
>security, I can post new messages to Usenet but can't post replies. When I
>try to reply, when I press "send" I get a blank "information" dialog box
>with three blank buttons on it, but pressing any of those buttons doesn't do
>anything. Closing the dialogue box just leaves the unsent reply sitting on
>my screen, most annoying.
>
>So I have come up with a cunning plan. I can post "new" posts just by
>copying the text from an original message and then adding my reply. However,
>this means it won't thread properly as it won't have the refrences to the
>message I'm replying to in the headers. But I know there is a way of
>changing headers....
>
>Is there any way I can change headers or include new headers using OE so
>that a "new" post references aa message ID so it threads properly?
>
>There is another work around I have in my mind without having to go post via
>Google (also most annoying) but it involves a bit more work and me
>remembering to do it every work day - rather unlikely knowing me.

I don't use Outlook Express, but you want to copy someone's
Message-ID:, make a new References: header out of it, and paste it
into a new message? Even if that were possible, I imagine that
learning even any new newsreader would be less tedious than that.

I'd take a second look at your settings in OE. I don't think your
problem is a network security issue, since whether an article is new
or a follow-up, it's created using the same NNTP command, "POST". OE
does have some settings that can make it treat new posts differently
from replies. Look under Tools->Options->Send especially.

Also, if you think that it's a bug with a non-up-to-date version of
OE, then last I checked (which admittedly was long ago), OE upgrades
were bundled with Internet Explorer upgrades, so I would check
Microsoft's update site too.

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