M$ Ending Open Discussion Newsgroups!
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From: David H. Lipman on 4 May 2010 21:23 From: "sgopus" <sgopus(a)discussions.microsoft.com> | it couldn't possbly be due to all the jerks and idiots who post garbage on | these areas for their fun and entertainment, annoying the rest of the users. | I'm personally glad they are ending these newsgroups, however, the format of | the group for windows 7 sucks big time, you can hardly find anything, and | people want to put their entire message in the subject line, and in all caps, | idiots!!!!! You can't fix stupid. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Peter Foldes on 4 May 2010 22:17 Copied from nntp(a)microsoft.com in the public.test.here newsgroup <snip> Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort, consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment with less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search engines. Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a clean space. We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to the community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and resources to minimize disruption to the community discussions. We are working diligently on providing additional resources and information in local languages later this week. In the meantime, please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days. <end snip> -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:%23ze0U%23%236KHA.5848(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > At some point in the future, this newsgroup will NOT be accessible or available > via the MS newsserver (news://msnews.microsoft.com) nor via web-access > (http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general). > > spamlet wrote: >> First I'd heard of this. I hope these 'forums' will not degenerate into the >> form they take in so called 'Google help'; Google Earth 'community' etc. > <snip>
From: David H. Lipman on 4 May 2010 22:31 From: "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> | Copied from nntp(a)microsoft.com in the public.test.here newsgroup It is just now being propogated and the time is 7 hours off ! -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: LD5SZRA on 4 May 2010 22:32 Also jerks won't be able to use the word "idiots" on forums. As soon as this word is used to describe a microsoft customer, that person would be censured very severely! hth sgopus wrote: > > it couldn't possbly be due to all the jerks and idiots who post garbage on > these areas for their fun and entertainment, annoying the rest of the users. > I'm personally glad they are ending these newsgroups, however, the format of > the group for windows 7 sucks big time, you can hardly find anything, and > people want to put their entire message in the subject line, and in all caps, > idiots!!!!! > -- THE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. LD5SZRA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF LD5SZRA OR ITS ASSOCIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY. Copyright LD5SZRA 2010.
From: David H. Lipman on 4 May 2010 22:37
From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> | From: "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> || Copied from nntp(a)microsoft.com in the public.test.here newsgroup | It is just now being propogated and the time is 7 hours off ! To add insult to injury... By definition the messages is spam as it is the same content being posted multiple times to numerous groups. Bloody MS idiots. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |