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From: William B. Lurie on 16 Jun 2010 09:11 FWIW, I joined the following group: eternal-september.support as a replacement for the dwindling current 'basics' group, and find it active and helpful.
From: VanguardLH on 16 Jun 2010 14:02 William B. Lurie wrote: > FWIW, I joined the following group: > > eternal-september.support > > as a replacement for the dwindling current 'basics' > group, and find it active and helpful. Which has nothing to do with the topic of THIS newsgroup. This newsgroup discusses Microsoft's Windows XP product family. That newsgroup would be about getting help with the ES service itself and has nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows XP; however, you are *still* posting using Microsoft's NNTP server so what ES has to do with your post is unknown. With Microsoft dropping their NNTP server, you think it wise to subscribe to a newsgroup that discusses some other newsgroups provider's service? How are you going to get to the ES newsgroup when Microsoft drops their NNTP server? What does the ES newsgroup have to do with Windows XP?
From: William B. Lurie on 16 Jun 2010 14:33 VanguardLH wrote: > William B. Lurie wrote: > >> FWIW, I joined the following group: >> >> eternal-september.support >> >> as a replacement for the dwindling current 'basics' >> group, and find it active and helpful. > > Which has nothing to do with the topic of THIS newsgroup. This > newsgroup discusses Microsoft's Windows XP product family. That > newsgroup would be about getting help with the ES service itself and has > nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows XP; however, you are *still* > posting using Microsoft's NNTP server so what ES has to do with your > post is unknown. > > With Microsoft dropping their NNTP server, you think it wise to > subscribe to a newsgroup that discusses some other newsgroups provider's > service? How are you going to get to the ES newsgroup when Microsoft > drops their NNTP server? What does the ES newsgroup have to do with > Windows XP? To reply briefly, I quote a query I posted there, which I would have posted here, and received several useful responses. And as far as I can make out, I don't think I'm on any server that is dependent upon Microsoft. > "Is there any way to find out what services are > being loaded, ready to execute, showing those > I.D.s in Task Manager? It wouldn't surprise me to > find that I'm being 'serviced' in ways that I'd rather > do without."
From: Bickford Schmeckler on 16 Jun 2010 15:55 : To reply briefly, I quote a query I posted there, which I would : have posted here, and received several useful responses. And : as far as I can make out, I don't think I'm on any server that : is dependent upon Microsoft. : Even though people may post on MS newsgroups through other NNTP servers, it doesn't change the fact that most of the experts and regular posters are gone! And, before long, the diehards will give up. Traffic is just about nill, you HoopleHead.
From: William B. Lurie on 16 Jun 2010 18:14
Bickford Schmeckler wrote: > : To reply briefly, I quote a query I posted there, which I would > : have posted here, and received several useful responses. And > : as far as I can make out, I don't think I'm on any server that > : is dependent upon Microsoft. > : > Even though people may post on MS newsgroups through other NNTP servers, it > doesn't change the fact that most of the experts and regular posters are > gone! And, before long, the diehards will give up. Traffic is just about > nill, you HoopleHead. > > Sticks and stones...... But if you go to the group that I went to, on recommendations received here, you'll find Microsoft MVPs pitching in there, as they used to do here. |