Message to webmasters: word limit

[Tony]

Hi,

Message to webmasters: word limit.

If you write more than 350 characters (70 words) on a new message
(Post a New Message) on this forum using Safari 1.0 and Mac OS X, you
get a warning that the window cannot be expanded, the window closes
and you lose all your writing.

If possible, please fix.

Thanks.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Tony,

You're using Microsoft's web interface to access these newsgroups and it is
notoriously unfriendly to the Mac platform. I suggest you use an
alternative (and better) way to access newsgroups, specifically a newsreader
(or Google if you really prefer a web interface). Please see this article
for your options: <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/AccessNewsgroups.htm>.

I will report your experience to MS and hopefully they'll eventually get it
right, but don't hold your breath.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>

 

[Tony]

Beth,

Thanks.

Actually, when I tried to send this reply from Safari 1.0 or Internet
Explorer 5.2.3 on Mac OS X 10.2.8 I got:

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-----Original Message-----
Message unavailable

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and then when clicking "Send":

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The message could not be posted to the NNTP server. The transport error
code was 0x800ccca9. The server response was 441 (629) Article Rejected
-- Ill-formed message id
'[email protected]=3E?=' in
field 'References:'

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Tony,

There are various portals for Microsoft's web news. One of the old ones
(the one you are using apparently) doesn't like something about my name.
This is an old problem which will disappear as soon as MS finishes
converting all portals to the newer web news format. If you really like
MS's web news, try this portal instead:
<http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
?guid=366BA05D-4181-BB41-B201-4C83D5F6024C>

However you will still have other Mac-related difficulties and I suggest you
stick with the newsreader anyway. It's light years faster and more
efficient.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>

 

[Tony]

Hi,

You guys surprise me every day!

Thanks for your help.

 

[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

Hi Tony,

You're using Microsoft's web interface to access these newsgroups and it is
notoriously unfriendly to the Mac platform. I suggest you use an
alternative (and better) way to access newsgroups, specifically a newsreader
(or Google if you really prefer a web interface). Please see this article
for your options: <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/AccessNewsgroups.htm>.

I will report your experience to MS and hopefully they'll eventually get it
right, but don't hold your breath.

You might even <horror of horrors : -)> Mozilla or Thunderbird ;-)

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[Phillip M. Jones, CE.T.]

Hi Tony,

There are various portals for Microsoft's web news. One of the old ones
(the one you are using apparently) doesn't like something about my name.
This is an old problem which will disappear as soon as MS finishes
converting all portals to the newer web news format. If you really like
MS's web news, try this portal instead:
<http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
?guid=366BA05D-4181-BB41-B201-4C83D5F6024C>

However you will still have other Mac-related difficulties and I suggest you
stick with the newsreader anyway. It's light years faster and more
efficient.

Impressive except the is no way to go to next message without using back arrow. That
not verry intuitive. You need a next topic tab.

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616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868
Martinsville Va 24112-1809 |[email protected], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet
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If it's "fixed", don't "break it"!

mailto[email protected]

<http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm>
<http://home.kimbanet.com/~pjones/birthday/index.htm>
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