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Can't post responses to others
For some unknown reason, my Thunderbird won't allow respponses
or new posts. I get messages like "post is more than 1 hour old" or "messae is too long --none of which is true? |
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On 3/18/2017 7:29 AM, Pfsszxt wrote:
For some unknown reason, my Thunderbird won't allow respponses or new posts. I get messages like "post is more than 1 hour old" or "messae is too long --none of which is true? Setup a news server account for news.mozilla.org. Subscribe to the mozilla.support.thunderbird. Post your problem there. However, this might be a problem with your existing news server. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com Consider: * Most state mandate that drivers have liability insurance. * Employers are mandated to have worker's compensation insurance. * If you live in a flood zone, flood insurance is mandatory. * If your home has a mortgate, fire insurance is mandatory. Why then is mandatory health insurance so bad?? |
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Pfsszxt wrote:
For some unknown reason, my Thunderbird won't allow respponses or new posts. I get messages like "post is more than 1 hour old" or "messae is too long --none of which is true? "Dude, you're posting on AIOE" :-) First, make sure your system clock is accurate. It cannot be off by more than one hour or so. Paolo has adjusted this setting over the years, but it occasionally blocks people from posting. The rule exists for an ancient situation, where newsreaders sorted by date, so if you had a post labeled "year = 2046", that post would always be at the top of the list where the user is forced to look at it. To prevent spammers from using that trick, posting-date is strictly enforced. You're not allowed to "post into the future". Make sure your DST rule is working, and your clock is synced. Daylight savings rules can be applied manually (TZEdit) on older OSes, or they come in as "optional updates" on a newer OS. ******* Line length is strictly enforced. The limit might be 135 characters per line. If a post comes from a Google Grouper, the line length on those frequently exceeds the AIOE limit. If you "quote" some text from a Google Grouper, then punch that Post button, the post is rejected because of the too-long lines in the "quoted" portion of the message. Your news client can have a line wrap setting. Set it lower than the AIOE limit, so that lines will be auto-wrapped to the (correct) length. In addition, your client supports format=flowed. The article here seems to suggest it doesn't matter (as auto-wrapping to the correct length is still happening anyway). http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/mailnewsfaq/FormatFlowed ******* If you post *exactly* the same message body twice, the second invocation will be rejected. Again, you must be on your toes when the first rejection happens. As you will (at least) need to modify the Body Text in a slight way, so the computed checksum of the message will be different than the first (rejected) post. You would think a rejected post would not be recorded in the hash table of the server, but for some dumb reason, it is. AIOE has lots and lots of rules, including rules for "ratio of quoted text to new text". You cannot quote a thousand line post, then add "Me too" or "+1" at the end of the message, as it will be rejected for "too much quoted text". This rule was added to prevent certain bumpkins from doing "cascades" in the kook group. Have fun (as it were, for some values of "AIOE fun") :-) "If it's not a challenge, it's not AIOE" Yes, I use AIOE as my backup server, and I don't have a bit of trouble with it. I got blocked a couple of times, for a day at a time, until I "learned the rules". It's plenty annoying at first, until you get used to it. It's like fighting against a robot. Paul |
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On 3/18/2017 9:29 AM, Pfsszxt wrote:
For some unknown reason, my Thunderbird won't allow respponses or new posts. I get messages like "post is more than 1 hour old" or "message is too long --none of which is true? Had to uninstall T-bird and then re-install it. But OK now |
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Pfsszxt wrote:
For some unknown reason, my Thunderbird won't allow respponses or new posts. I get messages like "post is more than 1 hour old" or "messae is too long --none of which is true? You are using the news server at aioe. That server has a couple of advantages and a lot of disadvantages. One 'advantage' is that it doesn't require registration to use. Because of that, its admin must enforce some policies to prevent its abuse by those who would take advantage of a server not requiring registration. It would be better to use a server which is admin/ed differently and which DOES require registration. There are several free servers; a popular one is eternal-september. http://www.eternal-september.org/Reg...ewsAccount.php news.eternal-september.org provides free read and write access to all text newsgroups. It requires a registration that can be done online. -- Mike Easter |
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Can't post responses to others
On 3/18/2017 9:29 AM, Pfsszxt wrote:
For some unknown reason, my Thunderbird won't allow respponses or new posts. I get messages like "post is more than 1 hour old" or "messase is too long --none of which is true? Don't know why it was so --but "fixed" it with a complete uninstall and re-install. |
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Can't post responses to others
On 3/18/2017 9:29 AM, Pfsszxt wrote:
For some unknown reason, my Thunderbird won't allow respponses or new posts. I get messages like "post is more than 1 hour old" or "messae is too long --none of which is true? Fixed it with a complete uninstall and reinstall |
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