Re: Cannot send msgs

From: Ben Stevenson (casiopie963_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:04:08 +0800

Thanks for your response. I tried Bruce's response first and it worked.
Thanks for your effort anyway.

"Kath Adams" <kathadams@(nospam)mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eH%23DKADrEHA.592@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Ben Stevenson wrote:
> > Recently I have been having difficulty in sending msgs.
> > One instance today is as below:
> >
> > Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'Re: Unsafe
> > ports', Account: 'news.grc.com', Server: 'news.grc.com', Protocol:
> > NNTP, Server Response: '441 Please reduce your quoting of the
> > previous post.', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 441, Error
> > Number: 0x800CCCA9
> >
> > What do I have to do?
> > TIA
>
> Courtesy of Michael Santovec :-
>
> If a thread is very deep, the References: header gets too long. Unlike
> some other news
> readers, OE does not know how to trim the line.
>
> The one workaround in OE is to start a new thread.
>
> Another workaround is to start the post, then do a File, Save As to an
> NWS file. Edit the
> NWS file in Notepad and manually trim the References line (i.e. remove
> all but the first
> and last entries) then save the file, double click it from the Windows
> File Explorer to
> open and complete the post.
>
> --
> Kath Adams
> MS MVP - Windows (IE/OE)
> This is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
>