Looking at the headers of the messages, I see that it was ~BD~'s first
message that was the first one to be cross posted. Thereafter, unless the
headers of message trimmed, a reply to group ends up in all of the groups
(even apparently to a group in respect of which a message that the group
could not be resolved is received).
I value Andy's comments about MVPs with what I paid for them.
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Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Mark McGinty" wrote in message
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"Andy" nospam@ wrote in message
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~BD~ wrote:
Andy wrote:
Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
The 24hoursupport.helpdesk newsgroup however cannot be resolved by my
news
program so my responses are not being posted to that group.
Yes they are.
You are 100% correct, Andy. Thanks for posting. 
Doug Robbins seems to be an "A-OK" MVP but has obviously *no clue* about
what is happening here!
Most 'MVPs' are completely stupid and haven't a clue about anything, so
you shouldn't be surprised.
I saw a message in the 'microsoft.public.test.here'group - nowhere else.
Fair enough. Microsoft's news server is probably screwed, which would
explain Mr McGinty's post.
Gah, was there a "how far can you go off-topic" contest I didn't hear
about? :-)
For the record I didn't cross-post anything -- thought about it, then was
going to paste a copy of the post that failed into a post to the test
group, then I [correctly] theorized it was a chunk of VBS code that was
causing it to fail. Problem solved... er, worked-around I should say --
the problem is excessively paranoid filtering. How many usenet clients
out there can pick out a chunk of script in a post and execute it?
I did mention this NG in my post to the test group, and yes I was very
much surprised anyone even read it, let alone responded. I figured it
would just be a bit bucket.
I could've corrected Doug's mistake, but since it was a matter of
absolutely no consequence, I figured I'd just let it lie, hoping to avoid
a long, worthless sub-thread. Silly me, next time maybe I'll know better.
-Mark
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