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From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 9 Jul 2010 16:43 See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx IE General, OE General, OE6, Windows Update, Win98 General, & WLMessenger were some of the newsgroups dropped late last week. IE6 was dropped in early June. Roger wrote: > Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost > newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups
From: Bill in Co on 10 Jul 2010 01:43 LVTravel wrote: > "Roger" <Monkey(a)Zoo.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message > news:eKhKB14HLHA.6120(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost >> newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups . >> >> Roger >> > > MS is dropping the newsgroups in favor of forums (yuck) and all of the MS > newsgroups will be gone by sometime in Oct this year IIRC. If you have > another news server you are using that has the old MS newsgroups you can > access them from there (I use eternal-september.org's) for my posts but > most of the NGs are now dead and no one is posting on them. Really? I'm not so sure about that, but then again, I haven't counted. I expect that many of us have just gone over to a different newserver. It will be interesting to see how many still stay active, however, after the forums really kick in. Hopefully a lot still will, however, as who really wants a forum based format? I still think the NNTP format for these simple text exchanges is preferable over the web page based format.
From: LVTravel on 10 Jul 2010 15:14 "Bill in Co" <surly_curmudgeon(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:NJSdnYD4dtb6laXRnZ2dnUVZ_qqdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com... > LVTravel wrote: >> "Roger" <Monkey(a)Zoo.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:eKhKB14HLHA.6120(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>> Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost >>> newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups . >>> >>> Roger >>> >> >> MS is dropping the newsgroups in favor of forums (yuck) and all of the MS >> newsgroups will be gone by sometime in Oct this year IIRC. If you have >> another news server you are using that has the old MS newsgroups you can >> access them from there (I use eternal-september.org's) for my posts but >> most of the NGs are now dead and no one is posting on them. > > Really? I'm not so sure about that, but then again, I haven't counted. > I expect that many of us have just gone over to a different newserver. > > It will be interesting to see how many still stay active, however, after > the forums really kick in. Hopefully a lot still will, however, as who > really wants a forum based format? I still think the NNTP format for > these simple text exchanges is preferable over the web page based format. > Microsoft is dropping their newsgroups by removing all from their servers. Many of the newsgroups can still be accessed using another mirror of the MS newsgroups which I am doing using eternal-september.org. Many of the newsgroups are now not receiving any new posts and even some that I have responded to recently are dying from lack of participation. What will remain is anyone's guess past October when all the news.microsoft.com newsgroups are no more.
From: ~*Laughingstar*~ on 10 Jul 2010 16:31 so much for believing I was doing so well! What will "we" do without our mentors??? PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: >> See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx >> >> IE General, OE General, OE6, Windows Update, Win98 General, & >> WLMessenger were some of the newsgroups dropped late last week. IE6 >> was dropped in early June. >> >> Roger wrote: >>> Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have >>> lost newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 >>> groups -- Ciao - CarolJhThompson "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience ( Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)."
From: Bill in Co on 10 Jul 2010 17:37
I'm not convinced they are all leaving. Hopefully some of the most helpful ones will stick around on the real newgroups (via another nntp server), and not this newage, web page forum thing. ~*Laughingstar*~ wrote: > so much for believing I was doing so well! What will "we" do without our > mentors??? > > PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: >>> See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx >>> >>> IE General, OE General, OE6, Windows Update, Win98 General, & >>> WLMessenger were some of the newsgroups dropped late last week. IE6 >>> was dropped in early June. >>> >>> Roger wrote: >>>> Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have >>>> lost newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 >>>> groups > > -- > Ciao - > > CarolJhThompson > "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are > spiritual beings having a human experience ( Pierre Teilhard de > Chardin)." |