On Wed, 30 May 2018 19:52:57 +1200, Ralph Fox <
[email protected]d>
wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2018 20:04:10 -0400, EGK wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2018 19:54:53 -0400, EGK <[email protected]> wrote:
I've been using the eternal september group to read and post in certain text
newsgroups. Suddenly I'm unable to post messages to rec.arts.tv with Agent >>> 8. I can post new messages and replies in alt.test and everything appears >>> to be going through when I post a followup in rec.arts.tv but my posts never
appear.
I've tried a few other free servers as well. Anyone know what the problem
could be or how to fix it?
Thanks
Replying to my own post. This is really strange. I can post in alt groups >> and can make a new post in rec.arts.tv but when I reply to anyone, my posts >> never appear in that group. Even though they look like they're being sent. >> I've checked with google groups and nothing appears there either.
1) Start a reply to this message. Before you send it, look carefully
at the "Newsgroups:" field on the composition window. Does the
"Newsgroups:" field say "alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent",
or does it show another newsgroup there?
2) Now go to your Sent messages folder and look _carefully_ at the
copies of those sent messaged which did not appear. In the sent
message, is the newsgroup "rec.arts.tv" or is it some other group?
3) I am guessing that your followups which did not appear were
followups to someone who set a "Followup-To:" header in his or
her post (deliberately, to prevent your post from appearing in
rec.arts.tv). FYI that is more likely to happen when you are
involved in a heated discussion around politics not TV.
If that is the case, then I suggest that you add "Followup-To"
to the NewsBaseFields setting in AGENT.INI. That will show at
the top of the body when someone has set a "Followup-To:" header.
See "Help >> Index >> .INI file >> AGENT.INIO >> [Article] >> NewsBaseFields="
Thank you.
I'll check that out but I was able to get everything working again by
simply installing a clean version of Agent with everything at
defaults.
A lot of crap builds up in 20 years and I've been installing new
versions over old for that long. I wasn't even able to respond to
my own posts in rec.arts.tv but it worked fine in alt.test and in here
and another group I post to. I've never seen anything like that
before.
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