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From: "Dave "Crash" Dummy" on 31 May 2010 10:20 *microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript* is living on borrowed time, and I hate web based forums. Where do we go from here? I know it is possible to create a new Usenet group, but I don't know how. I wish someone with more experience would step in. -- Crash Ignorance is curable. Stupidity is refusing treatment.
From: Mike B on 31 May 2010 11:02 The Classic VB groups are seeking safe haven in the comp.lang.* existing groups. There seems to be some people there that know the procedure for new group creation. The m.p.vb.general.discussion group is still up as of right now, but already one of the Access NGs is gone from a couple hours ago. "Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:oAPMn.72320$304.66311(a)newsfe12.iad... > *microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript* is living on borrowed time, and I > hate web based forums. Where do we go from here? I know it is possible > to create a new Usenet group, but I don't know how. I wish someone with > more > experience would step in. > -- > Crash > > Ignorance is curable. Stupidity is refusing treatment.
From: Todd Vargo on 31 May 2010 17:05 Mike B wrote: > The Classic VB groups are seeking safe haven in the comp.lang.* existing > groups. There seems to be some people there that know the procedure for > new group creation. The m.p.vb.general.discussion group is still up as of > right now, but already one of the Access NGs is gone from a couple hours > ago. > > > > "Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message > news:oAPMn.72320$304.66311(a)newsfe12.iad... >> *microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript* is living on borrowed time, and I >> hate web based forums. Where do we go from here? I know it is possible >> to create a new Usenet group, but I don't know how. I wish someone with >> more >> experience would step in. I don't like reading forums through a browser because I end up downloading and reading the same information over and over. Unlike a newsreader which sets a subject as read, a forum does not keep track of items I have already read. OTOH, we have topicality/netiquette discussions so many times that perhaps it's for the better that Microsoft disassociate their top posting induced format from newsgroups. Just my 2 cents. -- Todd Vargo (Post questions to group only. Remove "z" to email personal messages)
From: Mayayana on 5 Jun 2010 19:19 | *microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript* is living on borrowed time, and I | hate web based forums. Where do we go from here? Rumor has it that the groups will stay up. I don't really understand how this works myself, but from what I've been able to gather, the nature of NNTP is distributed. There isn't really a location for a given group. So..... * Microsoft will probably send out a message to delete the groups when they're dropped from the MS server, but all they're really doing is discontinuing hosting of the groups on their own server. * Any NNTP host has a choice as to whether they want to acknowledge that request, if it is sent. * Some hosts will keep hosting the groups. * A discussion in the VB group led to this link: http://www.eternal-september.org/ It's a free news server that intends to keep hosting the groups. You just open an account and set up your news reader to get this, or any other, newsgroup from that host.
From: Mayayana on 6 Jun 2010 17:35 Confirming this solution. I'm posting this via http://www.eternal-september.org/ Other groups that MS has dropped are available via E-S. They're also still available via some (many?) other private news servers and ISPs. The nice thing about that is that people looking for the MS groups will still probably find them as long as they don't look for them on msnews.microsoft.com. For anyone currently using the msnews server: This might be a good time to make the switch. Some of the groups have already disappeared. The WMI and VB.API groups are already gone from the MS server.
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