I've heard quite a few people complain that the 'Communities'
features are quite buggy. For that reason I do not use them.
Also, I have tried the web interface but find it maddingly clumsy and
restrictive compared to the cleaner and snappier NNTP interface.
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Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (WLMail)
"Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When changing newsgroups, back and forth, to look for responces and reply (in
> WLM and Windows Mail) I will often see my post go up, but I get the "Rate a
> Post" offer in my own message. This means my passport logon has suddenly
> failed. I have to restart WLM to get this to work again. I do see the correct
> passport info in the indicator box in the WLM window, it just decides to not
> work. I have learned that when I have trouble getting the button for "Reply
> to Group" to highlight, I know it's time to restart.
> This seems to be some problem with the passport verification when changing
> newsgroups. This was happening in Windows Mail, so I changed to Live, but
> after a month of using each one, I am getting the same passport failure. I
> don't think this is anything to do with the passport site, but something in
> the apps themselves.
> Since I have lost over 10% of my posts that were rated as an 'answer' to
> this posting failure (he said without a trace of rancor :/), I would like to
> hear from anyone else seeing this, and if any better fix is available than my
> 'highlight failure' indicator.
> --
> (Hello, Winston O', nice tio see you)
> Mark L. Ferguson