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From: R. C. White on 20 May 2010 21:37 Hi, Nobody. Sad, but true. :>( Even the FIRST Usenet site is closing today, May 20, 2010. See these two related stories: Help Save a Piece of Usenet History at Duke University http://www.ngrblog.com/duke-university-usenet/ A Piece of Internet History http://news.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html To quote Duke University: The Usenet service news.duke.edu will be decommissioned tomorrow. Widely considered the first home for newsgroups, Usenet services, in Duke's words, ".have been made unnecessary by the growing use of blogs, social networking sites and RSS feed." The dramatic drop in traffic on the Microsoft public news servers (msnews.microsoft.com) is no doubt because of Microsoft's announcement that most of those newsgroups will be closed by the end of this Summer. MS wants everybody to use their forums for support. Many of us MVPs have vigorously protested this move, but to no avail. My ISP (Grande Communications, based here in San Marcos, TX) continues to carry over 100,000 NGs and has not announced plans to drop them...yet. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX (Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.) rc(a)grandecom.net Microsoft Windows MVP (Using Quicken Deluxe 2010 and Windows Live Mail in Win7 x64) "Nobody" <jock(a)soccer.com> wrote in message news:sohbv5ddqnpo44i57uts2fjoj5ralk3mbj(a)4ax.com... > On Thu, 20 May 2010 17:34:18 -0400, Just me > <gearl.no(a)spam.comcast.net> wrote: > >>On Thu, 20 May 2010 10:55:17 -0700, charliec(a)email.com wrote: >> >>>What's happening to this newsgroup - no messages for a few days? >>> >>>Charliec >> >>It's not just this newsgroup. All of the 20 or so newsgroups I >>subscribe to are showing similar decrease in traffic for the past >>week. >> >> >> >>George >>gearlnospamno(a)nospamcomcast.net > > > Fewer and fewer ISP's are supporting Usenet, which is a pity.
From: Andrew on 20 May 2010 22:07 R. C. White wrote: > ... Also perhaps a reflection of the fact that Q is a mature product; most of the bugs and problems and how-tos that early adopters needed assistance on are done because of lack of new folks using the product and/or lack of new function that requires explanation (for the most part). We had quite an influx of posts about Microshaft Money conversion when that was made public, but that's settled down too. And as someone else posted, tax season is over, so no more Turbotax discussions for the most part until November or December. (Assuming we don't go to a flat tax, usage tax, or VAT tax for the next tax season which makes a tax program unnecessary. Nah - so simple, so fair, would never fly. Too many people's oxes and special interests would get gored.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Regards - - Andrew
From: XS11E on 20 May 2010 22:27 charliec(a)email.com wrote: > What's happening to this newsgroup - no messages for a few days? It should be obvious that nobody has any problems with Quicken, right? <snicker> -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/
From: David H. Lipman on 20 May 2010 22:28 From: "XS11E" <xs11eNO(a)SPAMyahoo.com> | charliec(a)email.com wrote: >> What's happening to this newsgroup - no messages for a few days? | It should be obvious that nobody has any problems with Quicken, right? | <snicker> Thanx to the economy I don't have any money left in my MMA to use it :-) -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: XS11E on 20 May 2010 23:34
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote: > From: "XS11E" <xs11eNO(a)SPAMyahoo.com> > >| charliec(a)email.com wrote: > >>> What's happening to this newsgroup - no messages for a few days? > >| It should be obvious that nobody has any problems with Quicken, >| right? <snicker> > > Thanx to the economy I don't have any money left in my MMA to use > it :-) I had plenty of money but.... I got hungry so I spent my life savings on a Big Mac and a Coke. <sigh> -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ |