Posting to this group - problems

I get the following when posting to a group:

Your message was successfully posted. However, Windows Mail was unable to
contact the community server, so rating, category, and other community
information was not included with the message. See the News error log for
details. Subject 'Search stopped working', Account: 'Microsoft Communities',
Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No,
Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D

It was working OK before. What gives?

Hi Jerry,

That service has been down for nearly a week. While you can still read and
post, you simply cannot use the enhanced community features. Microsoft is
aware of the issue, but I haven't seen any estimations on when it will be
fixed. To avoid the error messages, click tools/options and on the general
tab uncheck the line to use newsgroup rating features.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Jerry" <> wrote in message
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>I get the following when posting to a group:
>
> Your message was successfully posted. However, Windows Mail was unable to
> contact the community server, so rating, category, and other community
> information was not included with the message. See the News error log for
> details. Subject 'Search stopped working', Account: 'Microsoft
> Communities', Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80,
> Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D
>
> It was working OK before. What gives?

Jerry [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:28:43 +0200] wrote:

>I get the following when posting to a group:
>
>Your message was successfully posted. However, Windows Mail was unable to
>contact the community server, so rating, category, and other community
>information was not included with the message. See the News error log for
>details. Subject 'Search stopped working', Account: 'Microsoft Communities',
>Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No,
>Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D
>
>It was working OK before. What gives?

Just out of curiosity, why are you using port 80 (HTTP) instead of
port 119 (NNTP)?

Marco

Strange. I am actually using port 119.


"Marco Desloovere" <> wrote in message
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> Jerry [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:28:43 +0200] wrote:
>
>>I get the following when posting to a group:
>>
>>Your message was successfully posted. However, Windows Mail was unable to
>>contact the community server, so rating, category, and other community
>>information was not included with the message. See the News error log for
>>details. Subject 'Search stopped working', Account: 'Microsoft
>>Communities',
>>Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No,
>>Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D
>>
>>It was working OK before. What gives?
>
> Just out of curiosity, why are you using port 80 (HTTP) instead of
> port 119 (NNTP)?
>
> Marco

Jerry [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:37:41 +0200] wrote:

>Strange. I am actually using port 119.

Not according to the error message you posted.

Marco

hi reading through this thread i picked up on a question about ''why port 80
not 119''can you tell me what the difference is as this is something i was
not aware of ,and should i change mine ,thanks
--
martyb


"Marco Desloovere" wrote:

> Jerry [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:37:41 +0200] wrote:
>
> >Strange. I am actually using port 119.
>
> Not according to the error message you posted.
>
> Marco
>

Hi Marco,

I suspect that this is why the message posts, but he gets an error. The
message goes through 119, but the community features rely on 80.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Marco Desloovere" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Jerry [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:28:43 +0200] wrote:
>
>>I get the following when posting to a group:
>>
>>Your message was successfully posted. However, Windows Mail was unable to
>>contact the community server, so rating, category, and other community
>>information was not included with the message. See the News error log for
>>details. Subject 'Search stopped working', Account: 'Microsoft
>>Communities',
>>Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No,
>>Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D
>>
>>It was working OK before. What gives?
>
> Just out of curiosity, why are you using port 80 (HTTP) instead of
> port 119 (NNTP)?
>
> Marco

Confirming once again: even though the error message says 80, my setting is
119.


"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
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> Hi Marco,
>
> I suspect that this is why the message posts, but he gets an error. The
> message goes through 119, but the community features rely on 80.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Marco Desloovere" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Jerry [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:28:43 +0200] wrote:
>>
>>>I get the following when posting to a group:
>>>
>>>Your message was successfully posted. However, Windows Mail was unable to
>>>contact the community server, so rating, category, and other community
>>>information was not included with the message. See the News error log for
>>>details. Subject 'Search stopped working', Account: 'Microsoft
>>>Communities',
>>>Server: 'msnews.microsoft.com', Protocol: , Port: 80, Secure(SSL): No,
>>>Server Error: 200, Error Number: 0x8007000D
>>>
>>>It was working OK before. What gives?
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, why are you using port 80 (HTTP) instead of
>> port 119 (NNTP)?
>>
>> Marco
>

Rick Rogers [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:16:15 -0400] wrote:

>Hi Marco,
>
>I suspect that this is why the message posts, but he gets an error. The
>message goes through 119, but the community features rely on 80.

OK, thank you, and that led me to do a little research. Posting via the
Microsoft Communities, messages get in fact posted to the Usenet and the
web as well. For example this thread:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...sloc=en-us&p=1

Is Microsoft trying to take over the Usenet now? ;-)

Marco

Hi Marco,

Microsoft has long offered both interfaces (NNTP and Web access) to their
support forums. Windows Mail is the first client (at least that I know of)
that begins to offer bits of each's features. Personally, I prefer to use
only NNTP (which is why web users don't see that little MVP icon associated
with my posts).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Marco Desloovere" <> wrote in message
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> Rick Rogers [Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:16:15 -0400] wrote:
>
>>Hi Marco,
>>
>>I suspect that this is why the message posts, but he gets an error. The
>>message goes through 119, but the community features rely on 80.
>
> OK, thank you, and that led me to do a little research. Posting via the
> Microsoft Communities, messages get in fact posted to the Usenet and the
> web as well. For example this thread:
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...sloc=en-us&p=1
>
> Is Microsoft trying to take over the Usenet now? ;-)
>
> Marco