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I seem unable to post on newsgroups i can see them but when i try to post i get :: Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'Re: make big money on line', Account: 'news.cable.ntlworld.com (1)', Server: 'news.cable.ntlworld.com', Protocol: NNTP, Server Response: '441 Posting Failed ("From" Header not in Internet Syntax.)', Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 441, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9

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untick 'this server requires a secure connection' in accounts/advanced

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use yenc or powerpost maybe

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no tick in there !

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I quote myself cuz i go unheard most the time ;)

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what is yenc or powerpost ?

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are you sure it isn't set to ssl, Secure(SSL) in the error msg suggests it is.

when set to this i get a similar error msg.
http://ghostpilot.dyndns.org/outlookex.JPG

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there apps for posting to news servers

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Your "From" header is, of course, where you put your email address, Paul. Maybe you haven't set an address that OE can recognise as a valid one.

Be careful with this. Use a 'throwaway' address (i.e. something like a Hotmail or Yahoo address set up for the purpose), or 'munge' the address: i.e. change it so that a human being can decipher the real address, but a program can't.

The reason for this is that spammers trawl newsgroups looking for valid email addresses to add to their lists - any email address posted on Usenet is likely to get spammed. They do this with 'bots' - programs designed for this. Thus any address is added as listed - they don't have time to go through the lists and decipher munged ones themselves.

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thankyou for all the help guys and girls i now have managed to get it working and i am guessing it was my fake email that was causing the problems :erm:

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fake emails shouldn't have caused it. John@john.com always works for me. Erm, sorry to John there.

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I would suspect that it was the format, rather than the nature of the address that caused the problem: eg, spaces in the name, etc.

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..no it doesn't

"Secure(SSL): No"

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Has anyone else noticed just how slow NTL's newsgroup servers have become since the 10Mb upgrades started? Is this just coincidence or are users thrashing them for their binary downloads?

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Yes its got very intermittant, times out a lot and cannot even supply 3 meg here - looks like the future :(

I'm really beginning to think this 10 meg roll out is a big mistake, NTL don't seem to have the network to cope with it, I don't even have 10mb but I can't even get 3 now at peak times, so my service has got a lot worse :(

I hope they can sort this, it all looks like a step backward from here..