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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
[Community feechur strikes again?]
Gene3 wrote: Thanks to you and others for your suggestions. I found the cause elsewhere... It's a bug in Windows Mail on Vista computers that affixes the "x-usc:" prefix onto URLs when copying them. Here's a generic example of the source code involved: A=20 href=3D"mhtml:{249823CC-30E1-4365-B565-540D83AAB0D4}mid://00000119/!x-usc= news://newsserver/newsgroup"news://newsserver/= newsgroup/A I didn't notice it til very recently, but it seems to be propagating. Also googling for this error doesn't find much. So my hunch is that it was introduced with a recent Vista or Windows Mail update. I have no idea if MS is aware of it... G3 "Michael Santovec" wrote in message ... Take a look at the File associations for URL:News Protocol and URL:NNTP Protocol. They should read "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\Msimn.exe" /newsurl:"%1" -- Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us "Gene3" wrote in message ... The news link displays normally in OE6: news://newsserver/newsgroup Looking at its source code, that is exactly how it appears in the source code as well, no extra characters or prefix. However the link is dead when clicked, it goes nowhere. The reason is that apparently a x-usc: prefix appears out of the blue for unknown reasons, so when hovering the mouse over the link it appears in the OE6 status bar as follows: x-usc:news://newsserver/newsgroup Where does the mysterious x-usc: prefix come from, why, and how can it be fixed? |
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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
Do you know if MS is aware of this bug? I'm seeing it more and more in NG
postings, wherever html posts are allowed. It doesn't happen in text format posts. -- Gene3 "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... [Community feechur strikes again?] Gene3 wrote: Thanks to you and others for your suggestions. I found the cause elsewhere... It's a bug in Windows Mail on Vista computers that affixes the "x-usc:" prefix onto URLs when copying them. Here's a generic example of the source code involved: A=20 href=3D"mhtml:{249823CC-30E1-4365-B565-540D83AAB0D4}mid://00000119/!x-usc= news://newsserver/newsgroup"news://newsserver/= newsgroup/A I didn't notice it til very recently, but it seems to be propagating. Also googling for this error doesn't find much. So my hunch is that it was introduced with a recent Vista or Windows Mail update. I have no idea if MS is aware of it... G3 "Michael Santovec" wrote in message ... Take a look at the File associations for URL:News Protocol and URL:NNTP Protocol. They should read "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\Msimn.exe" /newsurl:"%1" -- Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us "Gene3" wrote in message ... The news link displays normally in OE6: news://newsserver/newsgroup Looking at its source code, that is exactly how it appears in the source code as well, no extra characters or prefix. However the link is dead when clicked, it goes nowhere. The reason is that apparently a x-usc: prefix appears out of the blue for unknown reasons, so when hovering the mouse over the link it appears in the OE6 status bar as follows: x-usc:news://newsserver/newsgroup Where does the mysterious x-usc: prefix come from, why, and how can it be fixed? |
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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
Do you know if MS is aware of this bug? I'm seeing it more and more in NG
postings, wherever html posts are allowed. It doesn't happen in text format posts. -- Gene3 "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... [Community feechur strikes again?] Gene3 wrote: Thanks to you and others for your suggestions. I found the cause elsewhere... It's a bug in Windows Mail on Vista computers that affixes the "x-usc:" prefix onto URLs when copying them. Here's a generic example of the source code involved: A=20 href=3D"mhtml:{249823CC-30E1-4365-B565-540D83AAB0D4}mid://00000119/!x-usc= news://newsserver/newsgroup"news://newsserver/= newsgroup/A I didn't notice it til very recently, but it seems to be propagating. Also googling for this error doesn't find much. So my hunch is that it was introduced with a recent Vista or Windows Mail update. I have no idea if MS is aware of it... G3 "Michael Santovec" wrote in message ... Take a look at the File associations for URL:News Protocol and URL:NNTP Protocol. They should read "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\Msimn.exe" /newsurl:"%1" -- Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us "Gene3" wrote in message ... The news link displays normally in OE6: news://newsserver/newsgroup Looking at its source code, that is exactly how it appears in the source code as well, no extra characters or prefix. However the link is dead when clicked, it goes nowhere. The reason is that apparently a x-usc: prefix appears out of the blue for unknown reasons, so when hovering the mouse over the link it appears in the OE6 status bar as follows: x-usc:news://newsserver/newsgroup Where does the mysterious x-usc: prefix come from, why, and how can it be fixed? |
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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
To answer my own question: I did quite a bit of googling, and discovered
that reports of this bug started over 2 years ago. So MS has ample time to become aware of it, and their response is apparently to ignore it and hope it will go away. Or maybe they just don't care. The evolution of windows software has perhaps become too top heavy... -- Gene 3 "Gene3" wrote in message ... Do you know if MS is aware of this bug? I'm seeing it more and more in NG postings, wherever html posts are allowed. It doesn't happen in text format posts. -- Gene3 "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... [Community feechur strikes again?] Gene3 wrote: Thanks to you and others for your suggestions. I found the cause elsewhere... It's a bug in Windows Mail on Vista computers that affixes the "x-usc:" prefix onto URLs when copying them. Here's a generic example of the source code involved: A=20 href=3D"mhtml:{249823CC-30E1-4365-B565-540D83AAB0D4}mid://00000119/!x-usc= news://newsserver/newsgroup"news://newsserver/= newsgroup/A I didn't notice it til very recently, but it seems to be propagating. Also googling for this error doesn't find much. So my hunch is that it was introduced with a recent Vista or Windows Mail update. I have no idea if MS is aware of it... G3 "Michael Santovec" wrote in message ... Take a look at the File associations for URL:News Protocol and URL:NNTP Protocol. They should read "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\Msimn.exe" /newsurl:"%1" -- Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us "Gene3" wrote in message ... The news link displays normally in OE6: news://newsserver/newsgroup Looking at its source code, that is exactly how it appears in the source code as well, no extra characters or prefix. However the link is dead when clicked, it goes nowhere. The reason is that apparently a x-usc: prefix appears out of the blue for unknown reasons, so when hovering the mouse over the link it appears in the OE6 status bar as follows: x-usc:news://newsserver/newsgroup Where does the mysterious x-usc: prefix come from, why, and how can it be fixed? |
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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
To answer my own question: I did quite a bit of googling, and discovered that reports of this bug started over 2 years ago. So MS has ample time to become aware of it, and their response is apparently to ignore it and hope it will go away. Or maybe they just don't care. The evolution of windows software has perhaps become too top heavy... -- Gene 3 "Gene3" wrote in message ... Do you know if MS is aware of this bug? I'm seeing it more and more in NG postings, wherever html posts are allowed. It doesn't happen in text format posts. -- Gene3 "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... [Community feechur strikes again?] Gene3 wrote: Thanks to you and others for your suggestions. I found the cause elsewhere... It's a bug in Windows Mail on Vista computers that affixes the "x-usc:" prefix onto URLs when copying them. Here's a generic example of the source code involved: A=20 href=3D"mhtml:{249823CC-30E1-4365-B565-540D83AAB0D4}mid://00000119/!x-usc= news://newsserver/newsgroup"news://newsserver/= newsgroup/A I didn't notice it til very recently, but it seems to be propagating. Also googling for this error doesn't find much. So my hunch is that it was introduced with a recent Vista or Windows Mail update. I have no idea if MS is aware of it... G3 "Michael Santovec" wrote in message ... Take a look at the File associations for URL:News Protocol and URL:NNTP Protocol. They should read "C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\Msimn.exe" /newsurl:"%1" -- Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us "Gene3" wrote in message ... The news link displays normally in OE6: news://newsserver/newsgroup Looking at its source code, that is exactly how it appears in the source code as well, no extra characters or prefix. However the link is dead when clicked, it goes nowhere. The reason is that apparently a x-usc: prefix appears out of the blue for unknown reasons, so when hovering the mouse over the link it appears in the OE6 status bar as follows: x-usc:news://newsserver/newsgroup Where does the mysterious x-usc: prefix come from, why, and how can it be fixed? |
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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:10:47 -0500, Gene3 wrote:
To answer my own question: I did quite a bit of googling, and discovered that reports of this bug started over 2 years ago. So MS has ample time to become aware of it, and their response is apparently to ignore it and hope it will go away. Or maybe they just don't care. The evolution of windows software has perhaps become too top heavy... Does this bug exist in Windows Live Mail, or MS Outlook 2007? Even if the bug were discovered two years ago, it will never be addressed in MS Outlook Express because development stopped well over two years ago. Even Windows Mail (the Vista client, and different from Windows Live Mail) is older than that discovery date for the bug; as is MS Outlook 2003. -- Norman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:10:47 -0500, Gene3 wrote: To answer my own question: I did quite a bit of googling, and discovered that reports of this bug started over 2 years ago. So MS has ample time to become aware of it, and their response is apparently to ignore it and hope it will go away. Or maybe they just don't care. The evolution of windows software has perhaps become too top heavy... Does this bug exist in Windows Live Mail, or MS Outlook 2007? Even if the bug were discovered two years ago, it will never be addressed in MS Outlook Express because development stopped well over two years ago. Even Windows Mail (the Vista client, and different from Windows Live Mail) is older than that discovery date for the bug; as is MS Outlook 2003. -- Norman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
The bug occurs with Windows Live Mail and Vista. It has nothing to do with
Outlook, Outlook Express, or other mail/newsreader clients except that they (all of them) find such URLs dead, inactive because of the spurious x-usc: prefix. You can google for yourself and read about it, searchstring: "x-usc windows mail vista". -- Max U Genius "N. Miller" wrote in message ... On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:10:47 -0500, Gene3 wrote: To answer my own question: I did quite a bit of googling, and discovered that reports of this bug started over 2 years ago. So MS has ample time to become aware of it, and their response is apparently to ignore it and hope it will go away. Or maybe they just don't care. The evolution of windows software has perhaps become too top heavy... Does this bug exist in Windows Live Mail, or MS Outlook 2007? Even if the bug were discovered two years ago, it will never be addressed in MS Outlook Express because development stopped well over two years ago. Even Windows Mail (the Vista client, and different from Windows Live Mail) is older than that discovery date for the bug; as is MS Outlook 2003. -- Norman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
The bug occurs with Windows Live Mail and Vista. It has nothing to do with
Outlook, Outlook Express, or other mail/newsreader clients except that they (all of them) find such URLs dead, inactive because of the spurious x-usc: prefix. You can google for yourself and read about it, searchstring: "x-usc windows mail vista". -- Max U Genius "N. Miller" wrote in message ... On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:10:47 -0500, Gene3 wrote: To answer my own question: I did quite a bit of googling, and discovered that reports of this bug started over 2 years ago. So MS has ample time to become aware of it, and their response is apparently to ignore it and hope it will go away. Or maybe they just don't care. The evolution of windows software has perhaps become too top heavy... Does this bug exist in Windows Live Mail, or MS Outlook 2007? Even if the bug were discovered two years ago, it will never be addressed in MS Outlook Express because development stopped well over two years ago. Even Windows Mail (the Vista client, and different from Windows Live Mail) is older than that discovery date for the bug; as is MS Outlook 2003. -- Norman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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news link in OE6 won't work with x-usc: prefix
[And another hoople-head joins the fray...]
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 except that they (all of them) find such URLs dead, inactive because of the spurious x-usc: prefix. You can google for yourself and read about it, searchstring: "x-usc windows mail vista". "N. Miller" wrote in message ... On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 05:10:47 -0500, Gene3 wrote: To answer my own question: I did quite a bit of googling, and discovered that reports of this bug started over 2 years ago. So MS has ample time to become aware of it, and their response is apparently to ignore it and hope it will go away. Or maybe they just don't care. The evolution of windows software has perhaps become too top heavy... Does this bug exist in Windows Live Mail, or MS Outlook 2007? Even if the bug were discovered two years ago, it will never be addressed in MS Outlook Express because development stopped well over two years ago. Even Windows Mail (the Vista client, and different from Windows Live Mail) is older than that discovery date for the bug; as is MS Outlook 2003. -- Norman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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