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From: nntp on 4 May 2010 16:34
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: Karl E. Peterson on 5 May 2010 19:14
nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:
> 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.

Bite me!!!

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From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 5 May 2010 21:14
Hi Karl,

Do you need to modify your signature to add something relevant in respect of
NNTP?

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message
news:eUYo3iK7KHA.5808(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Bite me!!!
>
> --
> .NET: It's About Trust!
> http://vfred.mvps.org
>
>
From: Karl E. Peterson on 5 May 2010 21:41
Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
> Do you need to modify your signature to add something relevant in respect of
> NNTP?

Heh, it's *still* about Trust, Doug! And Microsoft has fully
demonstrated they can't be trusted. This is just more evidence of
that.

But y'know what? They *don't* own usenet! There simply is no way for
them to kill these groups. They can turn off their server, but the
groups will live on. :-)

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http://vfred.mvps.org


From: Graham Mayor on 6 May 2010 00:55

"Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message
news:O9RUC1L7KHA.604(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> But y'know what? They *don't* own usenet! There simply is no way for
> them to kill these groups. They can turn off their server, but the groups
> will live on. :-)
>
> --
> .NET: It's About Trust!
> http://vfred.mvps.org
>
Unfortunately they die on their own, by virtue of the fact that most people
are completely unaware of them :(
Usenet is the best part of the internet, but presentation is far more
important than content (bullsh*t baffles brains), so lets make everything
far more difficult :(

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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