From: Tim Slattery on
Martin Honnen <mahotrash(a)yahoo.de> wrote:

>FAQ server wrote:
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> FAQ Topic - What is JScript?
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> JScript is Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript.
>>
>> Questions that are specific to Microsoft's JScript may also
>> be appropriately asked at:
>> microsoft.public.scripting.jscript.
>
>Just a note that Microsoft has decided to close down all microsoft.*
>newsgoups in the next months:
>http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

They will shut down their NNTP servers, the hierarchy will doubtless
continue to exist on other servers.

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Tim Slattery
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From: Dr J R Stockton on
In comp.lang.javascript message <lni2v5l0uf05b9aig5naqhr8b86gbj4ier(a)4ax.
com>, Mon, 17 May 2010 09:56:36, Tim Slattery <Slattery_T(a)bls.gov>
posted:

>>Just a note that Microsoft has decided to close down all microsoft.*
>>newsgoups in the next months:
>>http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx
>
>They will shut down their NNTP servers, the hierarchy will doubtless
>continue to exist on other servers.

At least a part of that hierarchy is, it is hoped, to be substituted by
a new Big-8 group.

We should watch out for any new Usenet groups being founded to
substitute for other parts of news:microsoft.*, since they should
propagate at least as well as nominally-removed MS groups.

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