Thank You!!!
That worked for this and the other miscrosoft newsgroup I was accessing!!
Now if I could access alt.binaries.fonts too I'd be extremely happy!!
Is there a link for that too? Like the one you guys gave me?

Thanks again!
Andrea

"Jim Pickering" <jim.pickering@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uaBFTvg7FHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Close Internet Explorer, then click on the link Tim indicated below in his
> reply (or copy/paste the link into the Start/Run line). It should open
> directly in Outlook Express. If it does not, post back with any error
> message you may be getting. Do you also have Outlook (component of MS
> Office) installed on this computer?
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
> Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped.
> Thanks.
>
>
> "gecko_drea" <geckodrea@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7CF905DA-F411-4A89-A14D-1645C8E6DAAD@microsoft.com...
>> Hi Tim
>> Yes, I access this newsgroup via IE... not OE... I can get to one of my
>> other much used newsgroups via IE too... but find using OE much easier so
>> would have liked to get the problem sorted...
>> ho-hum
>>
>>
>> "Kuay Tim" wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andrea,
>>>
>>> Beyond saying there's a problem with headers I can't be of much help.
>>>
>>> The Errors Without Cause or Solution Specified
>>>
>>> 0x800CCCAC NNTP_HEADERS_FAILED Unable to display headers.
>>> 420 No article(s) selected
>>>
>>> Can you successfully connect to this newsgroup using NNTP and the
>>> Microsoft
>>> server?
>>>
>>> News Link for this Group
>>> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlooke xpress
>>> If the link is not active it can be copied to the Start, Run box for
>>> use.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tim K.
>>> aka Kuay Tim
>>> MS-MVP - Outlook Express
>>> Lynnwood, WA
>>> *
>>> "gecko_drea" <geckodrea@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:EDF5BEEF-6597-4145-AAD3-DF24E4CD5D1D@microsoft.com...
>>> OE is suddenly no longer able to download my subscribed newsgroup
>>> messages!
>>> HELP... this is the note I get:
>>>
>>> 420 XOVER 136603902 - 136604100 alt.binaries.fonts
>>> Configuration:
>>> Account: news.bubbanews.com
>>> Server: news.bubbanews.com
>>> User name: drea77
>>> Protocol: NNTP
>>> Port: 119
>>> Secure(SSL): 0
>>> Error Number: 420
>>> Code: 800cccac
>>>
>>> Up until a week or 2 ago I had no problems, then I could not access the
>>> groups at all... I would get "Connected" "Authorizing", then numbers
>>> would
>>> appear in brackets and then just disappear... and now I get the above
>>> message
>>> after 1 message of 200 gets downloaded...
>>> Any ideas what has happened? I have tried synchronizing - same
>>> "error".....
>>> I do not re-call chaning any settings... any clues??
>>> Thanks
>>> Andrea
>>>
>>>
>>>
>