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

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

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
>
>
>

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
>>
>>
>>

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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>

That would depend on the news server you use. A shortcut can be created to
a news group by using the info in this link:
http://www.insideoe.com/tips/makeOElinks.htm
--
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.


"Andrea" <gecko_drea@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ugUwxrm7FHA.2092@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
>