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From: R. C. White on 4 Jun 2010 11:12 Hi, All. I just noticed that many of my subscribed newsgroups on this msnews.microsoft.com news server have disappeared. This is not a complete surprise, of course, since Microsoft announced this last month and has been reminding us. Several NGs were scheduled to be closed as of June 1. They hung around for a day or two, but they are no longer shown in my Folder List today. After I Reset List today, there are only 19 English-language microsoft.public.windows NGs left, and only 3 of the dozen or so that I was currently subscribed to. There's this 64-bit NG, plus the ones for WLMail and good ol' vista.general. I wonder how long THIS NG will survive. :^{ RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc(a)grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64)
From: Poutnik on 4 Jun 2010 12:46 In article <C2C614CF-1E11-471C-9A28-8C8806F3BCE9(a)microsoft.com>, rc(a)grandecom.net says... > > Hi, All. > > I just noticed that many of my subscribed newsgroups on this > msnews.microsoft.com news server have disappeared. This is not a complete > surprise, of course, since Microsoft announced this last month and has been > reminding us. Several NGs were scheduled to be closed as of June 1. They > hung around for a day or two, but they are no longer shown in my Folder List > today. > > After I Reset List today, there are only 19 English-language > microsoft.public.windows NGs left, and only 3 of the dozen or so that I was > currently subscribed to. There's this 64-bit NG, plus the ones for WLMail > and good ol' vista.general. > > I wonder how long THIS NG will survive. :^{ > > RC Then it is time for a bringe nntp2MSforums bridge http://communitybridge.codeplex.com/ -- Poutnik The best depends on how the best is defined.
From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 5 Jun 2010 00:36 Yes, but for this NG we're still waiting on a home. but by all means, use the bridge. It works. Great coding job by Jochen! -- Charlie. http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel "Poutnik" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:MPG.26734c548c41eb44989915(a)127.0.0.1... > In article <C2C614CF-1E11-471C-9A28-8C8806F3BCE9(a)microsoft.com>, > rc(a)grandecom.net says... >> >> Hi, All. >> >> I just noticed that many of my subscribed newsgroups on this >> msnews.microsoft.com news server have disappeared. This is not a >> complete >> surprise, of course, since Microsoft announced this last month and has >> been >> reminding us. Several NGs were scheduled to be closed as of June 1. >> They >> hung around for a day or two, but they are no longer shown in my Folder >> List >> today. >> >> After I Reset List today, there are only 19 English-language >> microsoft.public.windows NGs left, and only 3 of the dozen or so that I >> was >> currently subscribed to. There's this 64-bit NG, plus the ones for >> WLMail >> and good ol' vista.general. >> >> I wonder how long THIS NG will survive. :^{ >> >> RC > > Then it is time for a bringe nntp2MSforums bridge > http://communitybridge.codeplex.com/ > > > -- > Poutnik > The best depends on how the best is defined.
From: Poutnik on 5 Jun 2010 02:14 In article <C5665F05-AB14-4575-90A5-E92D02CCE291(a)microsoft.com>, Charlie(a)mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org says... > > Yes, but for this NG we're still waiting on a home. but by all means, use > the bridge. It works. Great coding job by Jochen! I had probably naive opinion MS NGs being removed already have MS web forum equivalent. :-) -- Poutnik The best depends on how the best is defined.
From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 5 Jun 2010 09:58
Generally that is true. The users of existing newsgroups are being pointed to an existing Forum, and in most cases the match up is pretty reasonable. For our particular newsgroup, there really isn't any close match, and we're asking that there be a new Forum created. So far, that hasn't happened, but I'm hopeful it will. We have some time, however, since this newsgroup is not on the initial list of newsgroups being turned off. And, of course, once a newsgroup is turned off, there are other sources for NNTP newsgroups that don't require msnews.microsoft.com to have the NG on it. -- Charlie. http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel "Poutnik" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:MPG.26740964b261ef58989916(a)127.0.0.1... > In article <C5665F05-AB14-4575-90A5-E92D02CCE291(a)microsoft.com>, > Charlie(a)mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org says... >> >> Yes, but for this NG we're still waiting on a home. but by all means, use >> the bridge. It works. Great coding job by Jochen! > > I had probably naive opinion > MS NGs being removed > already have MS web forum equivalent. :-) > > -- > Poutnik > The best depends on how the best is defined. |