Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
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From: Gordon on 6 May 2010 12:05 "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill(a)mvps.org> wrote in message news:OU98GES7KHA.356(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > So have you tried using the bridge? Given all the frustrations reported > during its development (and some issues still with newsreaders other than > WLM), I may be more inclined to just suck it up and use the forums in HTTP > format. > I haven't. I decided that the way to deal with some of the extraordinary ways that people post on the forums was best done by using the forum features... ;-)
From: Yves Dhondt on 6 May 2010 13:08 I just tried it. It is a bit slow for me. And there seems to be some issues as well. Luckely I'm not hit with every bug described in that forum. I found an open-source predecessor of the bridge at http://msdnforumsclient.codeplex.com/. Not sure if it still works. It seems both the bridge and that client are just interacting with a WCF service (http://services.social.microsoft.com/ForumsServicePreview/ForumsService.svc). So if the bridge goes farther south, I'm sure someone will implement their own software interacting with the service. Of course, that is until MS decides to stop the service on their end... Yves "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill(a)mvps.org> wrote in message news:OU98GES7KHA.356(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > So have you tried using the bridge? Given all the frustrations reported > during its development (and some issues still with newsreaders other than > WLM), I may be more inclined to just suck it up and use the forums in HTTP > format. > > -- > Suzanne S. Barnhill > Microsoft MVP (Word) > Words into Type > Fairhope, Alabama USA > http://word.mvps.org > > "Gordon" <gordon.burgessparker(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:e8jAHxR7KHA.5112(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> >> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill(a)mvps.org> wrote in message >> news:OPpO0oR7KHA.5412(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> I guess I assumed you had to have specific credentials (beta, MVP, etc.) >>> to access Connect. >>> >> >> Obviously not, seeing a lowly bod like me can! >> >
From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 6 May 2010 17:48
And with Windows Live Mail other than occasionally it seems to be a mismatch between the message body and the subject line and possibly the way it handles end of paragraph marks in text pasted from Word. Other than that, I do not see any difference between the performance of using WLM and the bridge to access forums on 127.0.0.1 and using WLM to access these newsgroups. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Graham Mayor" <gmayor(a)REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote in message news:#KBlkUS7KHA.1888(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > It works happily enough with Outlook Express :) > > -- > <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Graham Mayor - Word MVP > > My web site www.gmayor.com > Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org > <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > > > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill(a)mvps.org> wrote in message > news:OU98GES7KHA.356(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> So have you tried using the bridge? Given all the frustrations reported >> during its development (and some issues still with newsreaders other than >> WLM), I may be more inclined to just suck it up and use the forums in >> HTTP format. >> >> -- >> Suzanne S. Barnhill >> Microsoft MVP (Word) >> Words into Type >> Fairhope, Alabama USA >> http://word.mvps.org >> >> "Gordon" <gordon.burgessparker(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:e8jAHxR7KHA.5112(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>> >>> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" <sbarnhill(a)mvps.org> wrote in message >>> news:OPpO0oR7KHA.5412(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>> I guess I assumed you had to have specific credentials (beta, MVP, >>>> etc.) >>>> to access Connect. >>>> >>> >>> Obviously not, seeing a lowly bod like me can! >>> >> > > |