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From: Gordon Darling on 4 May 2010 15:08 "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. Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called NNTP newsgroups have past their time in terms of being usable and secure." More at http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004109-56.htm Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: s|b on 4 May 2010 15:29 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... (?) -- s|b
From: Thip on 4 May 2010 15:37 "s|b" <me(a)privacy.invalid> wrote in message news:4be075ad$1_1(a)news4us.nl... > On 04 May 2010 19:08:45 GMT, Gordon Darling wrote: > >> Although venerable, Microsoft said that so-called NNTP newsgroups have >> past their time in terms of being usable and secure." > > They plan to 'end support', what does this mean? The microsoft.* > newsgroups won't disappear but their won't be any "official" M$ support? > If so, then who cares? As long as the newsgroups stay alive... (?) > > -- > s|b Yes, but it means we're stuck with alt.* and never-ending killfiles unless we go to MS. I liked their NNTP groups.
From: s|b on 4 May 2010 15:42 On Tue, 4 May 2010 15:37:17 -0400, Thip 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... (?) > Yes, but it means we're stuck with alt.* and never-ending killfiles unless > we go to MS. I liked their NNTP groups. So you think the microsoft.* newsgroups will disappear? BTW they aren't moderated (are they?). -- s|b
From: David H. Lipman on 4 May 2010 16:43
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. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |