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From: nntp on 8 May 2010 03:24 What is Happening? This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums. Why? As you may know, newsgroups have existed for many years now; however, the traffic in the Microsoft newsgroups has been steadily decreasing for the past several years while customers and participants are increasingly finding solutions in the forums on Microsoft properties and third party sites. This move will unify the customer experience, centralize content, make it easier for active contributors to retain their influence, mitigate redundancies and make the content easier to find by customers and search engines through improved indexing. Additionally, forums offer a better user and spam management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by encouraging a healthy discussion in a clean community space. To this end, Microsoft will begin to progressively shift available resources to the forums technology and discontinue support for newsgroups. In addition to offering a compelling online browser experience, for those users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP Bridge which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to the forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP reader functionality. You can find instructions on how to download and set up the NNTP Bridge here: http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/ Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown? All public newsgroups will eventually be closed between June 1, 2010 and October 1, 2010. Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased approach, starting with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more active ones throughout the course of the next six months. When will this Happen? Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup? Microsoft has a large selection of forums, many of which cover either the same or closely related technologies to the ones found in the newsgroups. The forums have seen amazing growth and are an excellent place to continue the discussion. We recommend that you start with http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/group/WindowsAnswers Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx Who Should I Contact with any Questions? Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to NNTP(a)microsoft.com
From: 98 Guy on 8 May 2010 13:37 nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote: > What is Happening? Microsoft wants more control over the discussions of it's products. > Why? Because the sales of it's recent products (Vista, 7, Office 2007, etc) is slow, and it thinks that's because of the existance of uncontrolled support venues for older products. > Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown? > > Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased approach, starting > with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more > active ones throughout the course of the next six months. > > When will this Happen? > Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. LOL. Microsoft thinks this newsgroup is one of it's "least active". It's more like IE6 is one of it's "least liked" products.
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 8 May 2010 15:12 nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote: <snip> > When will this Happen? > Effective June 1, 2010 this newsgroup will be closed. Now you know!
From: Twayne on 9 May 2010 13:58 -- -- http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm -- -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_posting and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
From: Peter Foldes on 10 May 2010 00:28
Twayne Why in the world did you put that particular link for the crossposting article concerning the post by MS. Something flew by you by any chance and you did not catch on? -- 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 "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message news:%23PEjLF67KHA.5476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > -- > -- > http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > > > > > -- > -- > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_posting > and > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting > > > > > |