Help - Viewing Newsgroup postings

I am having an unusual condition of viewing my posted messages.

As I post this, hopefully I should be able to view it few minutes later.
But the posted message from my Laptop (using Windows Vista Home)
displays on light characters. Only my own postings show up this way,
not the rest of the postings by other users! I haven't found any settings
in 'Tools' to get rid of this problem.

I am using my Laptop running Vista Home Premium and for newsgroup
posting I use Microsoft Windows Mail, which is supposed to be similar
to Outlook Express. Are there any special setups that I am missing?

Any help will be highly appreciated.

I missed to mention that, the posted message shows up in red color,
instead of normal black.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

I think I have discovered the problem. Under Tools, Options, I had to
reset the "Highlight watched messages:" to Black, instead of Red color.