Microsoft ending newsgroup support
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From: BobF on 7 May 2010 09:53 On 5/5/2010 5:10 PM, Hector Santos wrote: > > Ajay Kalra wrote: > >> On May 4, 10:22 pm, "David Ching" <d...(a)remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote: >>> "MP" <mpNoS...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>> >>> news:esIqxF$6KHA.2160(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>> >>>> Microsoft said it plans to end support for more than 4,000 old-style >>>> newsgroups starting next month, pushing users instead to discussion >>>> forums >>>> such as those found on the Microsoft Answers, TechNet, and MSDN sites. >>> There is an MFC >>> forum:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcmfcatl/threads >> >> It already knew who I was as I had logged in using the Live ID. I >> guess MSFT is getting everyone all under one big umbrella. > > Do you know if the have a API (REST for example) for accessing the > Microsoft Forums network? > > Lets remember, the key thing here or lost is there NNTP server network. > That is what is the key thing is. > I remember going through this very thing with an audio s/w vendor in '03. Funny thing is that the newsgroups continue to thrive even though they took their own server down. The reason is simple. The newsgroup was propagated to servers throughout usenet. For example, this post is from news.eternal-september.org The solution is simple. Reconfigure to different servers and continue on as if the MS servers never existed.
From: Hector Santos on 7 May 2010 10:12 BobF wrote: > On 5/5/2010 5:10 PM, Hector Santos wrote: >> Lets remember, the key thing here or lost is there NNTP server network. >> That is what is the key thing is. > > I remember going through this very thing with an audio s/w vendor in > '03. Funny thing is that the newsgroups continue to thrive even though > they took their own server down. > > The reason is simple. The newsgroup was propagated to servers > throughout usenet. > > For example, this post is from news.eternal-september.org > > The solution is simple. Reconfigure to different servers and continue > on as if the MS servers never existed. What are the list of the "FREE" news servers that support the microsoft groups? Personally, I am only interested in maybe a dozen or so. I think Microsoft should continue serving a NNTP server with their name sake groups but cut down on the groups. I can host a nntp server as well but I would only want to gate a selected group. -- HLS
From: David Ching on 7 May 2010 10:21 "BobF" <nothanks(a)nospam.yum> wrote in message news:hs160b$e9f$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > The solution is simple. Reconfigure to different servers and continue on > as if the MS servers never existed. > Unfortunately most of the major ISP's don't offer NNTP newsgroups anymore, so will there be any free servers to access? I subscribe to Giganews, but that costs $. -- David
From: Michael Fosmire [MSFT] on 7 May 2010 10:27 Hey David, I've requested that the author fix those grammatical errors. -mike "David Scambler" <aa(a)aa> wrote in message news:Xns9D70A6CE5992FDavidScambler(a)203.50.5.233... > Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer(a)flounder.com> wrote in > news:3hi1u517hmbrh029mfr8sbl0bjimhk7n54(a)4ax.com: > >> This is sad. What is worse, they have an "NNTP bridge" mechanism (I >> found it on http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums ) that is >> supposed to let us use our professionally-designed and > > Speaking of adult supervision, who taught the nntp bridge folk to write an > english sentence? > > "In developing this application, our team's goal is to enable a way for > our > customers out there who wants to participate in the Microsoft Forum > communities, but does not yet find themselves comfortable with the > transition from the newsreader interface to the Forums Web interface." >
From: Stephen Wolstenholme on 7 May 2010 10:35
On Fri, 07 May 2010 10:12:45 -0400, Hector Santos <sant9442(a)nospam.gmail.com> wrote: >What are the list of the "FREE" news servers that support the >microsoft groups? > news.eternal-september.org is a good one to try. The chap who runs that server has already said he has no intention to remove the Microsoft groups. >Personally, I am only interested in maybe a dozen or so. I think >Microsoft should continue serving a NNTP server with their name sake >groups but cut down on the groups. > Most of the groups are not used. Steve -- Neural Planner Software Ltd www.NPSL1.com EasyNN-plus. Neural Networks plus. www.easynn.com SwingNN. Forecast with Neural Networks. www.swingnn.com JustNN. Just Neural Networks. www.justnn.com |