From: Al Dunbar on


"Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote in message
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> On 8/10/2010 6:44 PM, Dave "Crash" Dummy wrote:
>> wolf_tracks(a)invalid.com wrote:
>>> This is strange. Undermsnew.microsoft.com NG server I have 10 NGs. I
>>> just tried accessing several of them. microsoft.public.outlook is one.
>>> I'm getting msgs that they do not exist on the host. What's up with
>>> that?
>>
>> Microsoft is going out of the NNTP business infavor of web based forums
>> (yuk!). Many of the groups (including this one) are also carried on
>> Usenet servers. You might look for your missing groups there.
>
> I can't find it there. In fact I was referred to this group from the web
> based groups.

Now how is that for the height of irony?

> There is a Visual Basic group there. but apparently no VBScript group.

That appears to be by design, because, well, nobody needs to know anything
about vbscript they do not already know, right?

/Al