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From: Peter Duniho on 6 May 2010 21:34 Arne Vajh�j wrote: > [...] > But because many ISP has been closing down their news services, then > some dedicated news services are showing up. [...] My observation from the handful of ISPs I deal with is that they simply contract out to Giganews or Supernews if they want to provide their users with NNTP access. There's very little real competition in that space, as far as I can tell. If Giganews and Supernews decide to keep the newsgroups, then that will probably be enough to keep them healthy (well, as healthy as they can be with fewer and fewer people choosing NNTP as their protocol of choice). If those two don't decide to keep the newsgroups, I don't think the way-smaller ones will be enough to keep them going. Of course, only time will tell one way or the other. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Pete
From: Tim Roberts on 7 May 2010 01:05 Chris Dunaway <dunawayc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >Wouldn't you be starting from scratch then? All that message history >that currently exists would be lost, wouldn't it? Google has it. -- Tim Roberts, timr(a)probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
From: Jeff Johnson on 7 May 2010 09:38 "Tim Roberts" <timr(a)probo.com> wrote in message news:4s77u55f03r1bi5ncvfa5ld0rcc8ul3el9(a)4ax.com... >>Wouldn't you be starting from scratch then? All that message history >>that currently exists would be lost, wouldn't it? > > Google has it. Three or four years ago I would have agreed with you. Have you tried searching the newsgroups via Google recently?
From: cate on 9 May 2010 10:52 On May 5, 5:19 pm, "mick" <coughco...(a)privacy.com> wrote: > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx > > Anyone know if it's *all* the microsoft groups. Be a great shame > if they do. > > mick REALLY to bad. uS has never learned how to create a simple interface. Over production comes to mind. Looks really nice but they refuse to let your eye do its work. They'll windup with something like 15 C# catagories, each with a little drop down, 4 lines in the answer scroll, and .... you get the picture. They are in the middle of ruining Yahoo right now - javascript jump ups, rounded corners, little people images... god! Please stay off my yahoo finance page! (although who ever build that expandable stock chart should get a raise) There was a great article about craigs list in the wsj a few weeks ago; a discussion of this very matter - simple business interfaces. How many fonts will be on the new uS stuff? How many colors? How many topics per screen (2 ... but very pretty) sorry...
From: Tim Roberts on 11 May 2010 00:43
cate <catebekensail(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >How many fonts will be on the new uS stuff? >How many colors? >How many topics per screen (2 ... but very pretty) You don't have to guess about this. The MSDN forums have existed for many years. You can go browse them right now. They are as bad as you imply. -- Tim Roberts, timr(a)probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. |