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From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 13 May 2010 15:03 "FM" <spam(a)uce.gov> wrote: >Ive been following this newsgroup for over 10 years and without it and its >archives and the generous help daily offered to people here I almost >certainly would have given up programming a long time ago and would be lost >if you guys were scattered all over the place. Theres a lot of clever >knowledgeable people who frequent this newsgroup who often come up with some >genius things. Agreed. >This is time for all you good folks to work together and come >up with a mass migration plan to a better place and quickly by the sound of >it. If a suitable alternative that works for everyone can be found this >could be a blessing in disguise to become less dependent on Microsoft as >clearly they dont want anything to do with it. If it can be clearly defined >as VB4/5/6/Classic it might also see the end of the vbnet trolling that has >been a problem here for a long time now. Hmm, maybe someone can setup a peering newsgroup server just for the microsoft.public.vb* hierarchy. Dunno who you could peer with so as to ensure you don't have to pay $$$ though. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 13 May 2010 15:08 Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >> Oh yes, and The Reg called him a "Serial commentard" hehehe > >LOL!!! #1 hit on that description says it all. And I thought *we* had >some douchy behavior in here. That's hillarious. :-) The Brits do a good job with their English. I had a business trip to Germany in the mid 80s and I was starved for news so I picked up some British newspapers. I was flabbergasted at the many and varied humourously rude comments they made about the politicians. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Bob O`Bob on 14 May 2010 13:06 MikeD wrote: > So as I understand it, MS is dropping NNTP completely. Not just THIS > newsgroup, but ALL of them. > > Can anybody honestly say they DIDN'T see this coming? It was just a > question of when. > Yeah, I'm pretty sure I posted ~10 years ago on DevX .... which has been gone most of that time already. Bob --
From: Bob O`Bob on 14 May 2010 13:23
Henning wrote: > "Larry Serflaten" <serflaten(a)usinternet.com> skrev i meddelandet > news:eRvZgjr7KHA.3504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> "Henning" <computer_hero(a)coldmail.com> wrote >>>> You can find instructions on how to download and set up the >>>> NNTP Bridge here: http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ >>> Seems one has to download/install some new bloatware... >> ...And accept HTML posts. So much for the text-only crowd, >> they really want to push people into HTML. I wonder why??? >> >> <g> >> LFS >> >> > > Clouding... > > /Henning > > Oh, the enormity! |