Could not %#s because %#s. The group “%s” doesn’t exist on your server. “%.*s” is the mailbox to which your outgoing mail messages and news postings are saved. Deleting it will cause your messages not to be saved any more. Do you want to delete it anyway? “%.*s” is the mailbox to which your outgoing news postings are saved. Deleting it will cause your postings not to be saved any more. Do you want to delete it anyway? “%.*s” is the mailbox to which your outgoing mail messages are saved. Deleting it will cause your messages not to be saved any more. Do you want to delete it anyway? News authentication failed. The most likely cause for this problem is that your news server doesn’t require authentication at all. Try leaving the “News Username” and “News Password” fields empty in Internet Config and see if this helps. You have entered a News Username in Internet Config, but your news server doesn’t require authentication. You should leave the “News Username” and “News Password” fields empty in Internet Config. You are about to send an empty message. Be sure that this is really what you want to do. (If you changed your mind and you don’t really want to send this message, choose “Delete Message” from the Message menu.) You are about to send a message that consists only of quoted text. Be sure that this is really what you want to do. (If you changed your mind and you don’t really want to send this message, choose “Delete Message” from the Message menu.) There are no old articles to be purged right now. Couldn’t get this Mac’s IP address. Probably Open Transport isn’t configured correctly. Couldn’t get this Mac’s IP address. Probably MacTCP isn’t configured correctly. MacSOUP needs your attention. Please bring it to the front. The message contains characters that can’t be translated to the ISO-Latin-1 character set. You must change these characters to something else. The message contains characters that can’t be translated to ISO-Latin-1. They may (or may not) work if the recipient has a Mac too; however, if the recipient’s machine is something other than a Mac, they will definitely come out as garbage. The message contains non-ASCII characters, which might not be a good idea in the newsgroup(s) you’re posting to. The Newsgroups or Followup-To header lists the same group more than once. There’s a syntactically incorrect group name in the Newsgroups or Followup-To header. You can’t list that many groups in the Followup-To header. You can’t post to that many newsgroups. This is not a valid email address. The zip archive is empty. MacSOUP can’t extract multi-disk zip archives. MacSOUP can’t extract encrypted zip archives. The zip archive has been created by a new version of zip that MacSOUP can’t yet deal with. MacSOUP can’t extract zip archives that have been created on a VMS system. Sorry. The zip archive contains a file whose name is longer than 31 characters. MacSOUP can’t deal with this. The zip archive is corrupt. Be sure to use binary mode when downloading zip packets. This file doesn’t seem to be a zip archive. This should never happen - please report it as a bug. The zip archive doesn’t contain an AREAS file. One of the files in the zip archive has a ‘:’ character in its name. MacSOUP can’t deal with this. The zip archive contains directories; MacSOUP can’t deal with this. Please use only plain files. Your news server doesn’t support fetching only headers. This file doesn’t conform to the standard .newsrc syntax. Failed to initialize Open Transport. Check if it is installed and configured correctly. Failed to open MacTCP. Check if it is installed and configured correctly. Can’t post your outgoing news articles because you have no permission to post to this news server. You can only read from it. Can’t send your mail because you haven’t entered a valid SMTP host in Internet Config. You haven’t entered a valid news host in Internet Config. Can’t fetch your mail because you haven’t entered your email account correctly in Internet Config. You must enter it in the form “user@pop.server”. You can’t delete the main mailbox. This doesn’t seem to be a monospaced font. For best results, you should use a monospaced font for message texts, such as Monaco or Courier. Your default incoming SOUP packet is not really a SOUP packet. Very weird. Please use the Settings dialog to set it to a valid location. The location that you have specified for the default incoming SOUP packet seems to be invalid. Please use the Settings dialog to set it to a valid location. The message body contains quoted lines that are longer than 80 characters; you must manually rewrap them. The “Rewrap Text” command in the Edit menu can assist you with this. The “Subject:” field should not be empty (except perhaps when you are sending mail to an automated mail server). Try to come up with a descriptive subject for your message. Note that Followups have been redirected. Be sure to double-check your “Newsgroups:” header field. Your signature won’t be appended to this message because it has more than four lines, or contains lines longer than 72 characters. This operation is only possible if your “Outgoing Mail” and “Outgoing News” folders are both on the same volume. The poster of this article requested that replies be sent to him by email rather than posted publicly. I’ll prepare an email reply for you; you can still turn it into a followup if you really want. You haven’t entered a valid email address in your Internet Config preferences. MacSOUP won’t let you send messages until you do. There is no Internet Config preferences file. You must run the Internet Config application and set your preferences before you can open a MacSOUP settings file. You haven’t set your location in the Map control panel. MacSOUP won’t let you send messages until you do, because it can’t generate correct “Date:” headers without the time zone information. Memory is getting critically low. You should close some windows, or quit MacSOUP and increase its memory partition in the “Get Info” box.