Arfa Daily wrote:
My OE has been refusing to connect to my ISP's news server
for uploading messages for over a day now.

David Nebenzahl wrote:
I'm sure you realize, or at least suspect, that it's not OE
(as ****ty as it may be) but your ISP's news server
that's probably choking here.
(Unless you're having some kind of network problems at your end.)

....which COULD be tested for in a group with *test* in its name.
news:alt.test

I've only seen ONE example of a situation
where it was acceptable to post a test to a non-*test* newsgroup
....and the group referenced was NOT among the Big 8.
(It was more of M$'s junk, of course.)

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.e...xample+discard