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Jim,

Have you tried pressing and holding the left mouse button over the
"Reply" button?  If you do, you'll see a popup menu appear that gives
you two options.  The upper (default) option sends email to the poster.
The lower option posts to the newsgroup.  If you press the button and 
release it immediately, you'll select the email option.  Usually.

That's probably what's happening.  While using NS 4 since its inception,
I've never accidentally posted when I intended email.  I don't think
it's a NS problem.

If this still happens to you (even after my comprehensive reply), I'd
do the following:

- get a new netscape (4.77 is current)
- check out your mouse (How long since you cleaned it?)
- cut back on the caffeine (your finger may be shaking excessively)

    Randy


Jim Thomas wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been reading newsgroups with Netscape 4.x under Linux for a couple
> of years now, and every now and then NS gets into this crazy mode where
> it thinks that the "Reply" button should send an email instead of
> posting my response to the newsgroup I'm reading at the time.
> 
> Unless I remember to check, the article goes to an individual via email
> instead of to the newsgroup.  I find this quite maddening, but I can't
> seem to find out why this happens (and it's not consistent either!)
> 
> I tried googling for the answer, but I guess I couldn't come up with the
> right keywords for an effective search.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> --
> Jim Thomas      **    Principal Applications Engineer ** Bittware, Inc
> 703.779.7770    **    jthomas@bittware.com **  http://www.bittware.com
> The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that is even worse.
>  - Calvin's dad

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