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N. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:40:51 +0100, ¡ÂBD¡Â wrote:
>
>> I'm now using Quotefix as you recommended - I trust things appear
>> better at your end.
>>
>> As you are well aware, I'm really naive about the technicalities but
>> the header I'll add below doesn't (to me) appear to have been posted
>> through the web interface or through Google Groups.
>>
>> I'd be grateful if you'd tell me how I've misunderstood matters if
>> I've got it wrong. Thank you.
>
> It was not. The posting agent is MS Outlook Express, which can't be
> used with either the Microsoft communities web interface, or Google
> Groups. The posting agent for each appears as:S
>
>> User-Agent: G2/1.0 (for Google Groups)
>
> ... or:
>
>> X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
>
> ... for the Microsoft Communities web interface.
>
> The "Path:" and "Message-ID:" header lines are the clue. Along with
> knowing that MS Outlook Express does not send a "Message-ID:" header
> line, so the server adds one instead. The 'phx.gbl' domain is used by
> 'msnews.microsoft.com' for posts coming through that server via any
> NNTP posting agent, such as MS Outlook Express, which does not allow
> the user to set a domain for the MID$. Some NNTP posting agents, such
> as the Opera client (which I've tested elsewhere) and 40tude Dialog
> (which I am using for this article) do allow a custom domain to be
> set for the MID$.
Thank you Norman. I appreciate the time and trouble you have taken. I
have noted the test posts you have made as examples in
'microsof.public.test.here'.
So ........... is the following detail a forgery - or cannot you tell?
TIA
Reply-To: "PA Bear [MS MVP]"
From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]"
References:
Subject: Re: PING BRUCE HAGEN
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:09:46 -0400
Lines: 16
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
format=flowed
charset="big5"
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579
Message-ID:
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.152.248.232.res-cmts.tvh.ptd.net 24.152.248.232
Path: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl
Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general:62203
N. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:46:54 +0100, ¡ÂBD¡Â wrote:
>> Two new friends in another group tell me that PA Bear always posts
>> from
>> Google Groups. Do you agree with that?
>
> I have never seen a genuine PA Bear post come through Google Groups.
> While
> he uses a 'gmail.com' email address, I have not seen a PA Bear post
> from
> Google Groups. Not unless he is prone to using proxies, so his
> "NNTP-Posting-Host:" looks different. Something which could not be
> proven
> (that a proxy user is the same as somebody else, not that he is, or
> isn't
> using a proxy to access Google Groups).
I have no idea why how I post to NGs is anybody's business other than my
own
but yes, there are occasions when I post to a NG via Google Groups as
well
as via the MS web-interface.
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:40:51 +0100, ¡ÂBD¡Â wrote:
>
>> I'm now using Quotefix as you recommended - I trust things appear
>> better at your end.
>>
>> As you are well aware, I'm really naive about the technicalities but
>> the header I'll add below doesn't (to me) appear to have been posted
>> through the web interface or through Google Groups.
>>
>> I'd be grateful if you'd tell me how I've misunderstood matters if
>> I've got it wrong. Thank you.
>
> It was not. The posting agent is MS Outlook Express, which can't be
> used with either the Microsoft communities web interface, or Google
> Groups. The posting agent for each appears as:S
>
>> User-Agent: G2/1.0 (for Google Groups)
>
> ... or:
>
>> X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
>
> ... for the Microsoft Communities web interface.
>
> The "Path:" and "Message-ID:" header lines are the clue. Along with
> knowing that MS Outlook Express does not send a "Message-ID:" header
> line, so the server adds one instead. The 'phx.gbl' domain is used by
> 'msnews.microsoft.com' for posts coming through that server via any
> NNTP posting agent, such as MS Outlook Express, which does not allow
> the user to set a domain for the MID$. Some NNTP posting agents, such
> as the Opera client (which I've tested elsewhere) and 40tude Dialog
> (which I am using for this article) do allow a custom domain to be
> set for the MID$.
Thank you Norman. I appreciate the time and trouble you have taken. I
have noted the test posts you have made as examples in
'microsof.public.test.here'.
So ........... is the following detail a forgery - or cannot you tell?
TIA
Reply-To: "PA Bear [MS MVP]"
From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]"
References:
Subject: Re: PING BRUCE HAGEN
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:09:46 -0400
Lines: 16
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
format=flowed
charset="big5"
reply-type=original
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579
Message-ID:
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.152.248.232.res-cmts.tvh.ptd.net 24.152.248.232
Path: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl
Xref: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general:62203
N. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:46:54 +0100, ¡ÂBD¡Â wrote:
>> Two new friends in another group tell me that PA Bear always posts
>> from
>> Google Groups. Do you agree with that?
>
> I have never seen a genuine PA Bear post come through Google Groups.
> While
> he uses a 'gmail.com' email address, I have not seen a PA Bear post
> from
> Google Groups. Not unless he is prone to using proxies, so his
> "NNTP-Posting-Host:" looks different. Something which could not be
> proven
> (that a proxy user is the same as somebody else, not that he is, or
> isn't
> using a proxy to access Google Groups).
I have no idea why how I post to NGs is anybody's business other than my
own
but yes, there are occasions when I post to a NG via Google Groups as
well
as via the MS web-interface.