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From: kevinp on 9 May 2010 07:10
I've been reading this discussion in one of MS's VB.NET news group.
Wondered if anybody has heard about it. Here's a quote from the
original post:


Date 5/4/2010
Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively
closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations
in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response
to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs.

Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort,
consolidate community venues and make it easier for active
contributors to retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy
community environment with less spam and make answers easier to find
by customers and search engines. Additionally, forums offer a better
user and off-topic management platform that will improve customer
satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a clean space.

We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to
the community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out
tools and resources to minimize disruption to the community
discussions.

We are working diligently on providing additional resources and
information in local languages later this week. In the meantime,
please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx
concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made
available in additional languages in the next few days.
From: Cliff Galiher - MVP on 9 May 2010 08:51
Yes. At some point in the future, SBS will get an official forum and
sometime shortly thereafter this newsgroup will be shut down.

-Cliff


"kevinp" <kevinp(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
news:qu5du5p3aaq1pvrs26m0qr79v5t3g1c4nr(a)4ax.com...
> I've been reading this discussion in one of MS's VB.NET news group.
> Wondered if anybody has heard about it. Here's a quote from the
> original post:
>
>
> Date 5/4/2010
> Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively
> closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations
> in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response
> to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs.
>
> Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort,
> consolidate community venues and make it easier for active
> contributors to retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy
> community environment with less spam and make answers easier to find
> by customers and search engines. Additionally, forums offer a better
> user and off-topic management platform that will improve customer
> satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a clean space.
>
> We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to
> the community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out
> tools and resources to minimize disruption to the community
> discussions.
>
> We are working diligently on providing additional resources and
> information in local languages later this week. In the meantime,
> please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx
> concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made
> available in additional languages in the next few days.

From: Leythos on 9 May 2010 09:51
In article <uzU6XZ37KHA.4832(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, cgaliher(a)gmail.com
says...
> Yes. At some point in the future, SBS will get an official forum and
> sometime shortly thereafter this newsgroup will be shut down.
>

The newsgroup will cease to exist at Microsoft, but MS doesn't control
the other Usenet servers outside of MS, so the group will continue to
exist for most of the world - If I understand Usenet propagation
correctly.

--
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voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
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From: Peter Foldes on 9 May 2010 10:41
> Yes. At some point in the future, SBS will get an official forum and sometime
> shortly thereafter this newsgroup will be shut down.

And then you can access it via the NNTP Bridge from your newsreader like OE

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"Cliff Galiher - MVP" <cgaliher(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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From: Cliff Galiher - MVP on 9 May 2010 18:32
Because of the peer-to-peer nature of Usenet, although what you say is
technically true, most ISPs simply get set up "neighbors" from the large
Usenet providers. When MS pulls the plug, the large providers will stop
storing and propagating the feed, thus cutting off a majority of the smaller
ISP news servers.

Equally importantly though is that MS has, in the past, monitored the
various newsgroups and responded themselves. Although technet subscribers
get priority, the newsgroups are a slow, but sometimes free, way to get
support from MS. Look at all of the posts from [msft] users. This too will
change and for the few people that still have access to a server that
chooses to carry the group (if any), a large part of the value will be gone.

That provides incentive to move to the new platform when it becomes
available. I'm personally a fan of usenet so I am sad to see it go, but
when the time comes, I'll make the cut as well. I won't search and cling to
this sinking ship. There simply isn't enough of a reason to stay.

-Cliff



"Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.265087df511dc1e798a33c(a)us.news.astraweb.com...
> In article <uzU6XZ37KHA.4832(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, cgaliher(a)gmail.com
> says...
>> Yes. At some point in the future, SBS will get an official forum and
>> sometime shortly thereafter this newsgroup will be shut down.
>>
>
> The newsgroup will cease to exist at Microsoft, but MS doesn't control
> the other Usenet servers outside of MS, so the group will continue to
> exist for most of the world - If I understand Usenet propagation
> correctly.
>
> --
> You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
> voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
> Trust yourself.
> spam999free(a)rrohio.com (remove 999 for proper email address)

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