On 16.06.02 13:22, Bruce Feist Replied As Follows:

--- Original Message ---

> Jay Garcia wrote:
>> On 16.06.02 12:22, Bruce Feist Replied As Follows:
>> 
>> --- Original Message ---
>> 
>>>I'm using Mozilla 1.0 for news (among other things).
>>>
>>>When I try to send news articles to my new ISP's news server, I get an error 
>>>message saying that my IP address isn't authorized to do so.  I can read the 
>>>articles without difficulty, though.
>>>
>>>When I try Microsoft Outlook Express (bleh) with what appear to be equivalent 
>>>settings with my new ISP's news server, it works fine for both reading and 
>>>posting articles.
>>>
>>>My settings (on both news readers) are:
>>>e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Server name: news.east.cox.net
>>>Port: 119
>>>Use SSL: No
>>>
>>>What else can I look for to solve this issue?  I'm getting paranoid enough to 
>>>worry that my ISP is checking to see if the originating software is Outlook 
>>>Express and rejecting anything that isn't!
>> 
>> This can happen if you're dialing in to ISP "A" and trying to use the
>> services of ISP "B".
> 
> That's the logical conclusion... but if that were it, I wouldn't be able to post 
> articles from Outlook Express, either.  Also, the error message generated gives 
> my cox.net (i.e., new ISP) IP address.
> 
> Bruce
> 

Yah, I realized that just 'after' I hit "send" :-[

At any rate, look in your password manager, remove all instances of your
former ISP. Also, look in cookie-manager for same and remove ...

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Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion
Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI
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