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From: Bo Persson on 3 Jul 2010 04:45
Jeff Gaines wrote:
> On 02/07/2010 in message <e3SS5fjGLHA.1052(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
> Keith Combs wrote:
>
>> I believe you'll find the community is quite active there. The
>> forums have a number of benefits so I hope you'll give them a
>> chance.
>
> They don't have the benefits of speed, plain text and threaded news
> readers. Has anybody at MSFT tried them from, say, a 1 Mb/s Internet
> connection? Has anybody at MSFT ever used a proper news reader?
> They ought to give it a try they will be astonished by how quick it
> is.
> It's also not too difficult to formulate a question, or reply, in
> plain text, the 'rich experience' of HTML and garish colours just
> slows things down and doubles the load on the Internet without
> adding anything to the intelligibility of the message.

But they have more Bling - must be better.


Bo Persson


From: kraut on 3 Jul 2010 08:36
On 3 Jul 2010 08:03:43 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid(a)yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

>>I believe you�ll find the community is quite active there. The forums
>>have a number of benefits so I hope you�ll give them a chance.
>
>They don't have the benefits of speed, plain text and threaded news
>readers. Has anybody at MSFT tried them from, say, a 1 Mb/s Internet
>connection? Has anybody at MSFT ever used a proper news reader? They ought
>to give it a try they will be astonished by how quick it is.
>
>It's also not too difficult to formulate a question, or reply, in plain
>text, the 'rich experience' of HTML and garish colours just slows things
>down and doubles the load on the Internet without adding anything to the
>intelligibility of the message.

I so agree with you.

Most of the people I interact with are moving to their ISPs with the
news groups or finding free news servers.


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