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From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 10 May 2010 11:28
For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP newsgroups, and
not particularly looking forward to using web forums, check out:

https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums

This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on, and it
does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of sorts. It works
with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite possibly others.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




From: Bo Persson on 10 May 2010 12:07
Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:
> For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP
> newsgroups, and not particularly looking forward to using web
> forums, check out:
> https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums
>
> This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on,
> and it does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of
> sorts. It works with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite
> possibly others.

Right, so MS is closing down their news servers, because nobody wants
to use them anyway. Then offer an experimental software for us to run,
should we still want news access?

What am I missing here?


Bo Persson


From: Jeff Gaines on 10 May 2010 12:57
On 10/05/2010 in message <OU84nVF8KHA.1436(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> Charlie
Russel - MVP wrote:

>For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP newsgroups,
>and not particularly looking forward to using web forums, check out:
>
>https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums
>
>This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on, and it
>does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of sorts. It works
>with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite possibly others.

It works with XanaNews as well, I suspect it will work with most news
readers. Version 1 was unbelievably slow, I haven't tried 1.1.

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them?
(President Hayes speaking to Alexander Graham Bell on the invention of the
telephone)
From: Steve Foster on 10 May 2010 14:00
Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:

>For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP newsgroups,
>and not particularly looking forward to using web forums, check out:
>
>https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums
>
>This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on, and it
>does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of sorts. It works
>with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite possibly others.

Now we just need Microsoft to install this software onto one of their own
servers, say msnews.microsoft.com perhaps (since that's about to be idle),
and we can all carry on as we are.

--
Steve Foster
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From: Charlie Russel - MVP on 10 May 2010 15:47
1.1 is acceptable. Just, but definitely way better than 1.0. I couldn't run
1.0. I can run 1.1.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:xn0gtz7se7mfukq000(a)msnews.microsoft.com...
> On 10/05/2010 in message <OU84nVF8KHA.1436(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> Charlie
> Russel - MVP wrote:
>
>>For those of you lamenting the end of microsoft.public NNTP newsgroups,
>>and not particularly looking forward to using web forums, check out:
>>
>>https://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums
>>
>>This is free, it is actually still being developed and worked on, and it
>>does work. I can't say I love it, but it is a solution of sorts. It works
>>with the MS newsreaders and Forte Agent, and quite possibly others.
>
> It works with XanaNews as well, I suspect it will work with most news
> readers. Version 1 was unbelievably slow, I haven't tried 1.1.
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
> That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them?
> (President Hayes speaking to Alexander Graham Bell on the invention of the
> telephone)

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