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From: Family Tree Mike on 18 May 2010 09:53


"Dennis" wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 2010 16:32:47 -0500, "mp" <nospam(a)thanks.com> wrote:
>
> >I understand ms is deleting newsgroups soon. Are there plans on this group
> >of the main experts for an alternate group to migrate to?
>
> Keep in mind that this is USENET, which is by its very design
> decentralized. This means that MS can only delete these newsgroups from
> its own servers and send out a control msg "requesting" that other ISPs
> do likewise. Whether other ISPs honor the control msg is problematic. So
> I suspect these newsgroups will linger for years.
>
> What will the MVPs and other experts do when MS shuts down the groups on
> their servers? If they are actually getting their newsgroup feed from
> the MS servers, you won't see them here anymore. But if they are getting
> their newsgroup feed from another ISP, they will probably stick around
> for a while.
>
> I have given the NNTP Bridge a try for the last 5-6 days. I'm not real
> happy with the results and have since shut it down. When the newsgroups
> dry up and I have a question that I can't find the answer to, I guess
> I'll have to post on a web forum. I don't know if my first choice will
> be an MS forum though.
>
> --
>
> Dennis
> .
>

It seems to me the bridge software works slightly better with "Windows Mail"
on Vista than it does with Thunderbird. In Thunderbird, threads appeared as
unread from time to time, though they were read.

Mike
From: Olaf Rabbachin on 19 May 2010 03:23
Hi Mike,

Family Tree Mike wrote:

> No, I didn't try the treaded view option, but will give it a go this
> evening. The bridge gives me the threaded views, and lets me more easily
> track the threads I care about, it seems. Maybe I'm just too much of an old
> timer for the "web way"...

concerning the threads you're interested in, I particularly like the "My
Alerts" option (TR, underneath your account pic) which allows to just see
the threads in which you either replied or where you clicked the "Alert me"
link. It's far from being as useful as i.e. 40tude's scoring system, but it
allows to just see the threads that you care most for, but for all the
forums.

Cheers,
Olaf
From: Tom Shelton on 19 May 2010 09:27
Michel Posseth [MCP] brought next idea :
> I was in the past verry active on Freevbcode ( was once a "helper of the
> month" etc etc ) and switched to DevX when Freevbcode became a part of that
> website
> however i have the idea that Devx is not so good maintained annymore in the
> past few years there are no new features on the site , bugs are not fixed and
> if you send
> tips or code it is almost never published and you do not receive anny
> feedback after your initial automatic submit .
>
> maybe this MS decission gives the DevX authors the necesary kick in the but
> to do things "right" again ?
>
> regards
>
> Michel
>
>

Ironically, it was the conversion to web based forums that drove me
away from devx. I used to be quite active there back when they still
supported nntp.

--
Tom Shelton


From: Leythos on 19 May 2010 18:04
In article <#scCAig9KHA.4768(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, nospam(a)thanks.com
says...
>
> I understand ms is deleting newsgroups soon. Are there plans on this group
> of the main experts for an alternate group to migrate to?

I don't believe I'll be moving to the forum, Usenet is alive and well
and is still the perfect place to do this type of thing.

I'll stay here as long as the groups remain in public.

--
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.
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From: Family Tree Mike on 19 May 2010 21:17
On 5/19/2010 3:23 AM, Olaf Rabbachin wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Family Tree Mike wrote:
>
>> No, I didn't try the treaded view option, but will give it a go this
>> evening. The bridge gives me the threaded views, and lets me more easily
>> track the threads I care about, it seems. Maybe I'm just too much of an old
>> timer for the "web way"...
>
> concerning the threads you're interested in, I particularly like the "My
> Alerts" option (TR, underneath your account pic) which allows to just see
> the threads in which you either replied or where you clicked the "Alert me"
> link. It's far from being as useful as i.e. 40tude's scoring system, but it
> allows to just see the threads that you care most for, but for all the
> forums.
>
> Cheers,
> Olaf

It appears that you need to manually refresh the page to see updates on
those pages. Hopefully I'm just missing something...

--
Mike
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