Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how to post without hi-jacking someone
else's question?
Just don't use the infuriating, buggy webpage interface to these newsgroups.
Microsoft makes a real effort to conceal the fact that the webpage is NOT the
newsgroups; it's only a newsreader, and a pretty poor one at that!
Open Outlook Express (not Outlook!); create a new account using Tools...
Accounts; set the news server to msnews.microsoft.com on the News tab. No ID
and no password are required, but DON'T put your real email address on the
EMail Address line (spammers will harvest it if you do). I use
(e-mail address removed)
Put something with a nonexistant domain so you don't cause messages that will
hassle other people.
You can then select which newsgroups you want to see, post and receive
messages, etc. without the hassles of Microsoft's webpage.
John W. Vinson [MVP]