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From: s|b on 4 May 2010 17:07
On Tue, 4 May 2010 16:43:40 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:

> | They plan to 'end support', what does this mean? The microsoft.*
> | newsgroups won't disappear but their won't be any "official" M$ support?
> | If so, then who cares? As long as the newsgroups stay alive... (?)

> It means the Microsoft.* hierarchy will no longer propagate from msnews.microsoft.com

I don't use that server to access microsoft.*. I use the same one I'm
using now. Mainly for microsoft.public.nl.* and those (nl) newsgroups
are carried by several other news servers.

> Whether it will exist in Usenet at large... your guess is as good as mine.

In order to remove them 'properly', they would need to send an rmgroup
message, correct ? (I'm not very familiar with the correct procedure.)

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From: hotfoot on 4 May 2010 17:16
On Tue, 04 May 2010 16:43:40 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:

> From: "s|b" <me(a)privacy.invalid>
>
> | On 04 May 2010 19:08:45 GMT, Gordon Darling wrote:
>
>>> Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called NNTP newsgroups have
>>> past their time in terms of being usable and secure."
>
> | They plan to 'end support', what does this mean? The microsoft.* |
> newsgroups won't disappear but their won't be any "official" M$ support?
> | If so, then who cares? As long as the newsgroups stay alive... (?)
>
> It means the Microsoft.* hierarchy will no longer propagate from
> msnews.microsoft.com
>
> Whether it will exist in Usenet at large... your guess is as good as
> mine.

My guess is that Microsoft doesn't want their users comparing notes with
Linux fans.

From: David H. Lipman on 4 May 2010 17:35
From: "s|b" <me(a)privacy.invalid>

| On Tue, 4 May 2010 16:43:40 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:

>> | They plan to 'end support', what does this mean? The microsoft.*
>> | newsgroups won't disappear but their won't be any "official" M$ support?
>> | If so, then who cares? As long as the newsgroups stay alive... (?)

>> It means the Microsoft.* hierarchy will no longer propagate from msnews.microsoft.com

| I don't use that server to access microsoft.*. I use the same one I'm
| using now. Mainly for microsoft.public.nl.* and those (nl) newsgroups
| are carried by several other news servers.

>> Whether it will exist in Usenet at large... your guess is as good as mine.

| In order to remove them 'properly', they would need to send an rmgroup
| message, correct ? (I'm not very familiar with the correct procedure.)

Neither am I but sending the right control message to delete the group would remove a
group in Usenet at large.

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From: David H. Lipman on 4 May 2010 17:36
From: "hotfoot" <hotfoot(a)nospam.invalid>

| My guess is that Microsoft doesn't want their users comparing notes with
| Linux fans.

My guess it is more about control of content, moderation and the blocking of spam and
trolls.

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From: za kAT on 4 May 2010 17:50
On Tue, 4 May 2010 17:36:25 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:

> From: "hotfoot" <hotfoot(a)nospam.invalid>
>
>| My guess is that Microsoft doesn't want their users comparing notes with
>| Linux fans.
>
> My guess it is more about control of content, moderation and the blocking of spam and
> trolls.

More like an image issue, Usenet just ain't happening, and cool bro.

or whatever the young people say nowadays...

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