The Death of Usenet, part 237
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From: Woody on 6 May 2010 07:23 Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In message <1ji2hjf.kf8cwq1xbby9cN%peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> > peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > > > R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/ms_kills_groups/> > > > > > > > > "Microsoft is killing off its newsgroups and encouraging users to > > > > move to forums instead. > > > > > > > > The software giant has over 2,000 public groups covering its various > > > > products, as well as 2,200 private groups for the likes of Microsoft > > > > resellers. But from June 2010 these will be moved to revamped forums > > > > on TechNet, MSDN and Microsoft Answers." > > > > > > Should a plan B for ucsm be under consideration in case > > > the worst happens? > > > > Post-it notes on the noticeboard outside the Ethiopian. > > > > Can you sync them to the iPhone? Yeh - but only if you are using mail. -- Woody
From: Pd on 6 May 2010 07:26 Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In message <1ji2hjf.kf8cwq1xbby9cN%peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> > peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: > > > R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Should a plan B for ucsm be under consideration in case > > > the worst happens? > > > > Post-it notes on the noticeboard outside the Ethiopian. > > Can you sync them to the iPhone? Yup - you take a photo of them. -- Pd
From: Jim on 6 May 2010 07:29 On 2010-05-06, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> In message <1ji2hjf.kf8cwq1xbby9cN%peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> >> peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) wrote: >> >> > R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> > > Should a plan B for ucsm be under consideration in case >> > > the worst happens? >> > >> > Post-it notes on the noticeboard outside the Ethiopian. >> >> Can you sync them to the iPhone? > > Yup - you take a photo of them. > Cunning. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 6 May 2010 08:01 On Wed, 05 May 2010 10:06:20 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >On Wed, 5 May 2010 09:39:33 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >><http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/ms_kills_groups/> >> >>"Microsoft is killing off its newsgroups and encouraging users to move to >>forums instead. >> >>The software giant has over 2,000 public groups covering its various >>products, as well as 2,200 private groups for the likes of Microsoft >>resellers. But from June 2010 these will be moved to revamped forums on >>TechNet, MSDN and Microsoft Answers." >> >>Jim > >They spent some of last year writing a forum<-->NNTP gateway (only >slightly broken), I wonder if that includes the new "revamped" ones? Ah. Followup to this from the Forte Agent newsgroup - Message-ID: <iu65u5h3fhn1oaioai68utc0qe3osq6go0(a)4ax.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: MS nttp bridge anyone try it From: Stephen Wolstenholme <steve(a)tropheus.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 11:37:42 +0100 Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent On Thu, 06 May 2010 04:34:04 -0600, Ken1943 <kenw(a)no295no.net> wrote: >Curious to hear how it works, good/bad > >KenW Very, very bad. Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------- So that's no great surprise. Cheers - Jaimie -- Okay, it works now. Or at least it malfunctions in all the expected ways. -- Mark Edwards, asr
From: Pd on 6 May 2010 11:35
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: >> Subject: Re: MS nttp bridge anyone try it >> >Curious to hear how it works, good/bad >> Very, very bad. > So that's no great surprise. I don't think I've ever seen a nice bidirectional web forum <-> nntp bridge/gateway. They're invariably implemented by forum people trying to populate their crappy web forum, and don't give a toss about following protocols the other way so break quoting conventions, reference headers etc, and simply result in the usenet posters killfiling anything marked as having come through that gateway. -- Pd |