On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:15:01 -0500, Gene3 wrote:

The bug occurs with Windows Live Mail and Vista. It has nothing to do with
Outlook, Outlook Express, or other mail/newsreader clients ...

Interesting. Your OP "Subject:" mentions Outlook Express (" news link in
OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix"), yet you now say it has nothing to do
with MSOE? Also, FYI, Outlook is an email client and PIM; no news
capability, other than to invoke MSOE, and, maybe, any other client with
news reader capability.

... except that they (all of them) find such URLs dead, inactive because of
the spurious x-usc: prefix.

I have tried:

MS Outlook Express, on Windows XP MCE 2005; SP3. My followup is found as,
'Message-ID: '.

Windows Mail, on Windows Vista; SP2. My followup is found as, 'Message-ID:
'.

Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23, on Windows Vista; SP2. My followup is found
as, 'Message-ID: '.

With those three clients, on those to OSes, I am zero for three trying to
induce the 'x-usc:' address type to show in a link.

You can google for yourself and read about it,
searchstring: "x-usc windows mail vista".

I see. You're original problem statement does not include a full description
of what is happening. The problem only happens in Windows Mail. Using the
40tude Dialog (my newsreader) search function, the reader can't find
"Windows Mail" mentioned in your original problem statement. Sorry, I have
no way to find out what you omitted to include in your problem statement.
Your lack of clarity is a large part of why I am having trouble
understanding what is happening.

So, you copied a link, and then pasted it, while using Windows Mail. Let me
check my articles again ...

Relevant headers from the relevant article:

| Subject: news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
| Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:38:09 -0700
| Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
| X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18005
| Message-ID:
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress

Ah, but I am not posting to NNTP with HTML enabled. I wonder if enabling
HTML has something to do with the problem?

At this point I am too lazy to research this further. Your Google search
turns up a work around. Unfortunately, Windows Mail is as dead as MS Outlook
Express; any bugs are likely permanent, unless they are a critical security
issue. For future reference, when discussing problems with Windows Mail,
instead of posting a help request in an MS Outlook Express group, you would
do well to post to a Windows Mail help group:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ows.vista.mail

And I am also too lazy to research if the bug has carried over into Windows
Live Mail; currently the only free mail&news client offered by Microsoft.

--
Norman
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