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From: Mark McGinty on 23 May 2010 14:55 Greets, To those of us who, for whatever reason, are still using "unsupported" technologies, these news groups are a valuable resource. The quasi-related forums to which Microsoft has invited us are hardly replacements, posts about 'classic' technologies will be OT, and I'm sure pretty much everyone who posts questions about them would rather see responses more meaningful than, "consider upgrading to [something that is still supported]." In hopes of filling the void that will be left by these pending closures, I've added a section to a forum I created a couple of years ago, www.deprecatethis.com. I created it after reading that the Windows API was to be deprecated. I think the sentiment applies here as well, so I'm offering it as a replacement -- of course it isn't a news group, but at least the questions we used to post in these newsgroups will be on-topic. Another plus is that the site admin (that would be me) will be highly receptive to suggestions, making this a chance to shape a new community. To be honest at this moment www.deprecatethis.com isn't much of a forum -- the software (Yet Another Forum) is decent, but it isn't quite a hot-bed of discussion. About the only thing that has attracted any attention is a script I wrote to work around the Send To->Mail Recipient problem in x64 with Office/Outlook installed. That script is the only thing anyone (besides myself) has posted about. But maybe all that will change, I've created forums for classic ADO, classic ASP and VB6; any suggestions/requests for additional forums are welcome. (Reasonable suggestions will be implemented promptly.) I understand the preference for NNTP over web-based forums, but unfortunately I lack the means to host an NNTP server, this is all I have to offer, so... Please consider yourself invited to join. -Mark McGinty btw, if sending this post makes me a spammer, I apologize for the offense. Ordinarily I wouldn't have done this but these NGs are going away soon, a window is closing, so I figured what do I have to lose?
From: Mike Williams on 23 May 2010 15:09 "Mark McGinty" <mmcgintyNG(a)sSpUaCmKSdeprecatethis.com> wrote in message news:eoM6Amq%23KHA.4652(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > I created it after reading that the Windows > API was to be deprecated. Windows itself is about to be deprecated. Personally I think it is about time we all moved to Linux. Mike
From: Mark McGinty on 23 May 2010 15:22 "Mike Williams" <Mike(a)WhiskeyAndCoke.com> wrote in message news:ukcNMuq%23KHA.5476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > "Mark McGinty" <mmcgintyNG(a)sSpUaCmKSdeprecatethis.com> wrote in message > news:eoM6Amq%23KHA.4652(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > >> I created it after reading that the Windows >> API was to be deprecated. > > Windows itself is about to be deprecated. Personally I think it is about > time we all moved to Linux. I don't know about all that, marketshare speaks for itself... so I'd say rumors of its pending demise are greatly exagerated. -MM > Mike > > > >
From: dpb on 23 May 2010 15:46 Mark McGinty wrote: .... > In hopes of filling the void that will be left by these pending closures, > I've added a section to a forum I created a couple of years ago, > www.deprecatethis.com. ... as a > replacement -- of course it isn't a news group, but at least the questions > we used to post in these newsgroups will be on-topic. Another plus is that > the site admin (that would be me) will be highly receptive to suggestions, > making this a chance to shape a new community. > For ms.p.vb.g.d group it appears the consensus is to move to existing comp.lang.basic.visual.misc newsgroup. Most of these groups wouldn't be terribly off-topic if at all there and until there's sufficient traffic to generate the need, I see no reason for anything else. And, of course, it's still to be determined whether the mirrored sites will cease to carry the msnews hierarchies they're currently mirroring just because MS pulls the plug on their servers. .... > I understand the preference for NNTP over web-based forums, but > unfortunately I lack the means to host an NNTP server, this is all I have to > offer, so... Please consider yourself invited to join. .... Don't have any problem w/ the invitation but it doesn't seem necessary to give up on usenet over the withdrawal of MS from participating (fortunately).
From: C. Kevin Provance on 23 May 2010 15:53
"Mark McGinty" <mmcgintyNG(a)sSpUaCmKSdeprecatethis.com> wrote in message news:eoM6Amq%23KHA.4652(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... : In hopes of filling the void that will be left by these pending closures, : I've added a section to a forum I created a couple of years ago, : www.deprecatethis.com. I created it after reading that the Windows API was : to be Pass. I, and many others here do not like web forums for a plethora of reasons. Please refer to my signature for the planned protocol. -- Customer Hatred Knows No Bounds at MSFT Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org ClassicVB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc |