Newsgroups going bye-bye
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From: Gary Keramidas on 25 May 2010 23:31 here are some of my views on the transition: 1. For those of us that participate a lot, mvp's, beta team members and just people that like to help, the web based forums offer no way to: a. Search for messages posted by the "me", across a multitude of forums. i. In an nntp client, they're all in my sent folder. b. No way to search for key words in forum posts across a multitude of forums. i. In an nntp client, they are all in a folder. c . Save forum posts for future reference. i. I can drag them into a folder on my pc and have them forever. ii. In a web based forum, what do I do, drag a hundred links to posts scattered throughout the internet? Then, how do I search these by poster or keyword? 2. web based forums are slow. then they implement the annoying transition effects to make them appear even slower. the only person the forums will not annoy is the one-time poster. other than that, they are totally useless, in my opinion. -- Gary Keramidas Excel 2003 "FSt1" <FSt1(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C8E26893-8ABE-447E-B458-5E22D83CF347(a)microsoft.com... > this is the one i was directed to. > http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/officeexcel > i'm not impressed. > > Regards > FSt1 > > "Gary Brown" wrote: > >> I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in >> favor of >> a Forum >> format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less >> and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft >> Forums. >> I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum >> [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exceldev/threads?prof=required&ppud=4]. >> I have 2 questions. >> 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? >> 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we >> Excel oriented people can hang out? >> >> -- >> Gary Brown >> |