Subject: No Message Text Available in News

From: Bob Posert <[email-masked]>
Date: 5 Sep 1996 18:57:41 GMT

I'm trying to read the Microsoft newsgroups 
from a UNIX box where I 
have little disk space 
and less permissions.  
Pine seemed like the 
easy way to do this.  I 
downloaded the HPUX 
binary for pine (not 
IMAPD or pico yet), and 
configured pine to use 
msnews.microsoft.com 
for a nntp server per 
http://www.washington.edu/pine/secrets.html
I could subscribe to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.scripting, 
but all of the articles show "No Message Text Available."

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Bob

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From: kremžská HOŘČICE <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 23:48:00 +0200

> I'm trying to read the Microsoft newsgroups 
[...]
> but all of the articles show "No Message Text Available."

Microsoft's news
server is broken
and doesn't give
responses needed
by Pine. This is
their own server
software, and it
doesn't work the
way that several
newsreaders want
it to.  Give up.
It's real broke.
Point to any one
of the real news
servers with the
M$ newsgroups on
them.  That will
work to read the
groups with Pine

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From: Andrea Gonzales <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 09:34:41 -0500 (CDT)

> Microsoft's news server is broken and doesn't give responses needed by
> Pine. This is their own server software, and it doesn't work the way
> that several newsreaders want it to.  Give up.  It's real broke.  Point
> to any one of the real news servers with the M$ newsgroups on them. 
> That will work to read the groups with Pine

So what is a REAL server? I have yet to find one! If you know of any
please help me, as I had the same problem.

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ANDREA D. GONZALES                               
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