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From: Claire on 9 May 2010 16:52 It is multiposting, Microsoft!!!!!! bad, bad Claire <nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote in message news:eDrBLMb7KHA.5936(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Date 5/4/2010 > Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing > down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the > rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide > market trends and evolving customer needs. > > Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort, > consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to > retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment > with less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search > engines. Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management > platform that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating > discussions in a clean space. > > We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to the > community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and > resources to minimize disruption to the community discussions. > > We are working diligently on providing additional resources and > information in local languages later this week. In the meantime, please > refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx concerning > this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in > additional languages in the next few days. > >
From: Mike Williams on 9 May 2010 17:38 <nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote in message news:eDrBLMb7KHA.5936(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively > closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations > in the rapidly-growing forum platform . . . In much the same way that Adolf Hitler closed down the Jewish Ghettos in order to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing concentration camps! > This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving > customer needs. Liar. > Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort . . [translation: Micro$oft's continues to exercise control over the content in a way that will maximize profits] > . . and make it easier for active contributors to retain their influence. And exactly how does it do that? I think you are a liar. > Forums provide a healthy community environment with less spam We already had a healthy community environment in this newsgroup with virtually no spam at all, until you sent your lackey MVPs in to dusrupt the group with Micro$oft generated spam! > Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform What? Do you mean you will keep your MVPs out of it altogether, or do you mean you will not authorize or condone any disruption of the forums by them in the way that you have condoned their activities when they deliberately disrupted the VB6 newsgroup? > that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating discussions > in a clean space. Clean? Do you mean like your activities in Africa were clean, in the sense of cleaning out the competition by sending in your corporate gangsters to steal hundreds of thousands of paid for competitive operating systems and illegally substitute them with operating systems of your own manufacture without the purchaser's knowledge or consent? Do you mean that kind of clean? Or is it some other kind of "clean" you are talking about? > We understand that some newsgroups are still active Yes, we are. > and important to the community. Yes, we are. > In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and resources > to minimize disruption to the community discussions. You seem to have inserted a wrong word there. You obviously mean "maximize disruption ", since that is what you will be doing! > In the meantime, please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website > http://www.micro$oft.com/fanboycommunities/fanboynewsgroups/default.mspx > concerning this issue. That link is coming up with a "link appears to be broken" error. Are you sure you've got it right? Mike
From: C. Kevin Provance on 9 May 2010 19:04 Larry posted this in another group. In case you missed it: What they say: What they mean: Starting in early summer 2010, When we get good and ready, Microsoft will begin progressively closing we will begin our draconian attempt to close down the Microsoft public newsgroups all the NNTP service we can to enrich conversations in to try to force everyone over to our web apps the rapidly-growing forum platform. that we repeatedly update with bug fixes. This decision is in response Our shareholders demand that we raise revenue to worldwide market trends and bring out a Google-like ad campaign and evolving customer needs. which we can't do over NNTP. "Mike Williams" <Mike(a)WhiskeyAndCoke.com> wrote in message news:%23vP4t$77KHA.2292(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... : <nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote in message : news:eDrBLMb7KHA.5936(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... : : > Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively : > closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations : > in the rapidly-growing forum platform . . . : : In much the same way that Adolf Hitler closed down the Jewish Ghettos in : order to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing concentration camps! : : > This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving : > customer needs. : : Liar. : : > Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort . .. : : [translation: Micro$oft's continues to exercise control over the content in : a way that will maximize profits] : : > . . and make it easier for active contributors to retain their influence. : : And exactly how does it do that? I think you are a liar. : : > Forums provide a healthy community environment with less spam : : We already had a healthy community environment in this newsgroup with : virtually no spam at all, until you sent your lackey MVPs in to dusrupt the : group with Micro$oft generated spam! : : > Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform : : What? Do you mean you will keep your MVPs out of it altogether, or do you : mean you will not authorize or condone any disruption of the forums by them : in the way that you have condoned their activities when they deliberately : disrupted the VB6 newsgroup? : : > that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating discussions : > in a clean space. : : Clean? Do you mean like your activities in Africa were clean, in the sense : of cleaning out the competition by sending in your corporate gangsters to : steal hundreds of thousands of paid for competitive operating systems and : illegally substitute them with operating systems of your own manufacture : without the purchaser's knowledge or consent? Do you mean that kind of : clean? Or is it some other kind of "clean" you are talking about? : : > We understand that some newsgroups are still active : : Yes, we are. : : > and important to the community. : : Yes, we are. : : > In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and resources : > to minimize disruption to the community discussions. : : You seem to have inserted a wrong word there. You obviously mean "maximize : disruption ", since that is what you will be doing! : : > In the meantime, please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website : > http://www.micro$oft.com/fanboycommunities/fanboynewsgroups/default.mspx : > concerning this issue. : : That link is coming up with a "link appears to be broken" error. Are you : sure you've got it right? : : Mike : : : : :
From: Karl E. Peterson on 26 May 2010 20:20
nntp(a)microsoft.com wrote: > Date 5/4/2010 > Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing > down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the > rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide > market trends and evolving customer needs. > > Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort, > consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to > retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment with > less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search engines. > Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform > that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a > clean space. > > We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to the > community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and > resources to minimize disruption to the community discussions. > > We are working diligently on providing additional resources and information > in local languages later this week. In the meantime, please refer to the > official Microsoft Newsgroup website > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx concerning this > issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional > languages in the next few days. Quoting in full, uneditted, for Google Groups. -- ..NET: It's About Trust! http://vfred.mvps.org Customer Hatred Knows No Bounds at MSFT ClassicVB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org |