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From: Guy Ninety8 on 4 May 2010 19:00 Dan wrote: > According to this site, Microsoft is planning on phasing out the > old newsgroups and helping users transition to ... > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=6097&tag=nl.e539 > > Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Communities > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx > > Microsoft hitting 'unsubscribe' on newsgroups > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004109-56.htm That will not affect the existance and continued propagation of the set of newsgroups with names that happen to begin with "microsoft.public." Those of you that don't know any better than to read this or any other microsoft newsgroup via the microsoft servers and who don't know how to use alternate servers will disappear, but those of us who use "regular" nntp servers will continue to read and post messages to this and other microsoft.public newsgroups. As I've said many times, Microsoft does not own or control the microsoft.public set of newsgroups. They don't act as a central coordinator, aggregator, or administrator of them, nor can they censor or moderate them or their content. Many of you, for some reason, believes that Microsoft does own, control, administer or coordinate these groups. That is a delusion. If Microsoft pulls the plug on their own NNTP server, they can certainly do that, but it will have zero impact as to whether or not the "world-wide" usenet community of servers will also do the same. They have no obligation to do so (legal or otherwise).
From: Hot-text on 9 May 2010 23:17
No Not true I Test it out at microsoft.public. with the Old win98.webtv on Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 03:25:15 GMT and it was posted>> But May 09, 2010 Aioe Remove microsoft.public.win98.webtv It will have a big impact when all have is alt.windows98 to give out bad INFO! "Guy Ninety8" <Ninety8(a)com.guy> wrote in message news:4BE0A718.C27CE94E(a)com.guy... > Dan wrote: > >> According to this site, Microsoft is planning on phasing out the >> old newsgroups and helping users transition to ... >> >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=6097&tag=nl.e539 >> >> Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Communities >> http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx >> >> Microsoft hitting 'unsubscribe' on newsgroups >> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20004109-56.htm > > That will not affect the existance and continued propagation of the set > of newsgroups > with names that happen to begin with " > > Those of you that don't know any better than to read this or any other > microsoft newsgroup via the microsoft servers and who don't know how to > use alternate servers will disappear, but those of us who use "regular" > nntp servers will continue to read and post messages to this and other > microsoft.public newsgroups. > > As I've said many times, Microsoft does not own or control the > microsoft.public set of newsgroups. They don't act as a central > coordinator, aggregator, or administrator of them, nor can they censor > or moderate them or their content. Many of you, for some reason, > believes that Microsoft does own, control, administer or coordinate > these groups. That is a delusion. > > If Microsoft pulls the plug on their own NNTP server, they can certainly > do that, but it will have zero impact as to whether or not the > "world-wide" usenet community of servers will also do the same. They > have no obligation to do so (legal or otherwise). |