Problems Accessing This Newsgroup

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I'm having problems accesing these newsgroups using Internet Explorer here at
work (Version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.050301-1526). I will come to the newsgroups
in the morning and view various forums under English>Office>Access with no
problems. When I come back in the afternoon and restart Explorer and navigate
to my selections every one of them says, "Sorry - Page is temporarily
unavaiable". I've found the only way to get Explorer to work again so I can
view the newsgroups at this website is to delete the following cookies.

support.microsoft.com
microsoft.com
passport.com

This requires me to sign in every time I want to post or reply to postings.
Today, I also found that while I could now view the newsgroups, when I
clicked on New to create a new posting that nothing happened. So I am having
to post this message with that "other" popular browser. Any ideas on exactly
why I am having this problem? Is this because I am behind my companies
firewall perhaps? I have no problem posting at a multitude of other technical
forums, only this one when using IE6. Any help, insight or direction would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Roger Tregelles
Quality Assurance Engineer
Respironics Inc.
 
In Roger Tregelles <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
I'm having problems accesing these newsgroups using Internet Explorer
here at work (Version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.050301-1526). I will come
to the newsgroups in the morning and view various forums under
English>Office>Access with no problems. When I come back in the
afternoon and restart Explorer and navigate to my selections every
one of them says, "Sorry - Page is temporarily unavaiable". I've
found the only way to get Explorer to work again so I can view the
newsgroups at this website is to delete the following cookies.

support.microsoft.com
microsoft.com
passport.com

This requires me to sign in every time I want to post or reply to
postings. Today, I also found that while I could now view the
newsgroups, when I clicked on New to create a new posting that
nothing happened. So I am having to post this message with that
"other" popular browser. Any ideas on exactly why I am having this
problem? Is this because I am behind my companies firewall perhaps? I
have no problem posting at a multitude of other technical forums,
only this one when using IE6. Any help, insight or direction would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Roger Tregelles
Quality Assurance Engineer
Respironics Inc.
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It may very well be a firewall issue and cookies not being allowed to be
kept. You *might* try the remember you option but there's another option if
you have newsgroup access from work:

Access MS Newsgroups :
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/general/msnewsgroups.html

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes
 
Roger, it's much easier to use outlook express or some other newsreading
program.

If you'd like to try here is the link to this group (or at least one link
that works).

This will just leave you to fill in a few details - suggest you do NOT use a
real email address, (e-mail address removed) would be good enough since
..invalid is automatically routed to a "Black hole".

news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

and to the IE group

news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser


Hope this helps if you can go this route.

Charlie
 
Galen,

Thanks for the excellent reply. I hope you don't mind, but I have two quick
questions for you in connection with your reply.

1. How would I know if I have access to newsgroups here where I work? I
assume IT would know, but they might not be so quick to tell me or want me to
know.

2. How can you use Outlook Express (as indicated in your ling to G3
Solutions website) for newsgroup browsing without messing up getting your
email in the full version of Outlook which we use here at work?

Thanks so much for your input, and I hope you can help me out with these
questions. Take care.

Roger Tregelles
Quality Assurance Engineer
Respironics Inc.
 
In Roger Tregelles <[email protected]> had this to say:

Reply in the middle:
Galen,

Thanks for the excellent reply. I hope you don't mind, but I have two
quick questions for you in connection with your reply.

1. How would I know if I have access to newsgroups here where I work?
I assume IT would know, but they might not be so quick to tell me or
want me to know.
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Try it and see? As long as you have port 113 open you should be all set and
you likely do. I find that it's normally open unless someone made it a point
to close it. While a security view says that's not a very good idea, I can
say that it's a good idea in your case.

2. How can you use Outlook Express (as indicated in your ling to G3
Solutions website) for newsgroup browsing without messing up getting
your email in the full version of Outlook which we use here at work?
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Just don't setup Outlook Express to do the mail, only add a news account. I
think you'll find that you like it a LOT better than using the web
interface. There's more to do and it's easier and faster. If anything your
employers might be more happy to allow newsgroup access as it's much faster
than using the CDO/web interface.

Thanks so much for your input, and I hope you can help me out with
these questions. Take care.

Roger Tregelles
Quality Assurance Engineer
Respironics Inc.
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Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes
 
Galen,

It works! I setup Outlook Express as you outlined here at work and now have
access to the Microsoft Newsgroups. This is great. Is there any benefit to
using another newsreader program like Forte's FreeAgent? Or is Outlook
Express really the way to go? Let me know, and thanks so much for your help,
I really appreciate it.

Roger
 
In Roger Tregelles <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Galen,

It works! I setup Outlook Express as you outlined here at work and
now have access to the Microsoft Newsgroups. This is great. Is there
any benefit to using another newsreader program like Forte's
FreeAgent? Or is Outlook Express really the way to go? Let me know,
and thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate it.

Roger
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Forte's not bad but, I'm a slacker... I use OE... Have for ages... I've
tried the other apps... I always come "home" to OE though... For all her
bugs and weaknesses she does exactly what I want most of the time. Kind of
like a good hunting dog that runs off once in a while to chase chickens or
some sort of analogy like that.

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes
 
Galen,

Thanks so much for the input, I'm going to stick with OE for now. I really
appreciate all of your help with this problem I had. Take care.

Roger
 
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