Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
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From: nntp on 4 May 2010 15:17 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.
From: Mayayana on 4 May 2010 23:56 It looks like this group will be going dead any day now. I don't think there are any non-MS vbscript groups on Usenet, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone knows of any.
From: Mike B on 5 May 2010 07:40 "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message news:%23BpeAbA7KHA.3504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > It looks like this group will be going dead any > day now. I don't think there are any non-MS > vbscript groups on Usenet, but I'd be interested > to hear if anyone knows of any. Probably going to be stuck in the MS Forums.. > >
From: "Dave "Crash" Dummy" on 5 May 2010 08:59 Mike B wrote: > "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message > news:%23BpeAbA7KHA.3504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> It looks like this group will be going dead any >> day now. I don't think there are any non-MS >> vbscript groups on Usenet, but I'd be interested >> to hear if anyone knows of any. > > Probably going to be stuck in the MS Forums.. <expletive deleted> -- Crash "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down." ~ Robert Frost ~
From: Mike B on 5 May 2010 10:28
"Dave "Crash" Dummy" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:oYdEn.1584$mq1.406(a)newsfe07.iad... > Mike B wrote: >> "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote in message >> news:%23BpeAbA7KHA.3504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>> It looks like this group will be going dead any >>> day now. I don't think there are any non-MS >>> vbscript groups on Usenet, but I'd be interested >>> to hear if anyone knows of any. >> >> Probably going to be stuck in the MS Forums.. > > <expletive deleted> I trust I can insert whatever I deem appropriate... ;-) > > -- > Crash > > "Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down." > ~ Robert Frost ~ |