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From: Ken Blake, MVP on 13 Aug 2010 20:35
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:07:41 -0600, "Dan W."
<dream741land(a)nowhere.cola> wrote:

> On 8/13/2010 3:59 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:



> >>> See the other replies you've gotten, but note that you can still get
> >>> these newsgroups (with a diminished number of messages) from the
> >>> following servers (all free):
> >>>
> >>> news.eternal-september.org
> >>> aioe.org
> >>> news.albasani.net
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
> >>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
> >>
> >
>
> I agree, Ken. Do you know if Microsoft's primary reason was financial
> or was it too hard to control the responses in the newsgroups or was
> there some other reason. I use the news.eternal-september.org server to
> access the 98 general newsgroup.


I know nothing more than anyone else's here about Microsoft's reason,
but I doubt very much if it was financial. I think it had to do with
control. There were probably lots of ways they could have exercised
more control, but as far as I'm concerned, they chose the poorest way.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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