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From: David W. Fenton on 8 May 2010 18:36 John W. Vinson <jvinson(a)STOP_SPAM.WysardOfInfo.com> wrote in news:e2t8u5d460vmjigt91km8gnbsp1478464a(a)4ax.com: > On Fri, 7 May 2010 13:06:01 -0700, danklebs ><danklebs(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > >>There needs to be a show my posts button or something because I >>can never find my post. Something that will take you to your >>posts. That would be extremely helpful > > At least while the newsgroups still live, that can be done at > http://groups.google.com. Use Advanced Search. There's nothing MS can do to kill the instances of the microsoft.public.* newsgroups hosted on other news servers, so I'm pretty sure things will continue. I, for one, think it would be better if there were a single newsgroup for Access questions, as the breakdown by topic in the ms.public hierarchy just makes it hard to figure out where to look for answers. If everybody moved to comp.databases.ms-access, that would not be a disaster, in my opinion. -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
From: David W. Fenton on 8 May 2010 18:38 "Ron Hinds" <nospam(a)dontspamme.com> wrote in news:#JlRLIi7KHA.3504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl: > That is an extremely useful function of the Outlook Express > newsreader, which, sadly, won't work for very much longer since MS > is moving to a web forum-based system and away from NNTP ;-( Not true. The newsgroups will continue to exist on other news servers. It's only msnews.microsoft.com that is being shut down. That means that posts on the MS discussion website that were previously propagated to other news servers will no longer propagate outside MS, but, well, most of the good people in the Access newsgroups aren't posting through MS's news server or the crappy forum website. -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
From: Dirk Goldgar on 9 May 2010 00:13 "Richard" <Richard(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3CE5A607-3C90-4FF4-8C50-9111B23C7D40(a)microsoft.com... > > Also the spam > here is so annoying. Second almost all of the regular contributors [MVP] > and > others can be found else where in other forums. I don't think that's true, unless you count the "forums" that are just slurping posts from the newsgroups. I will grant, though, that there are a number of regulars who also post regularly on Utter Access; even some who mostly post there and only drop in on the newsgroups occasionally. -- Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP Access tips: www.datagnostics.com/tips.html (please reply to the newsgroup)
From: Dirk Goldgar on 9 May 2010 00:20 "David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet(a)dfenton.com.invalid> wrote in message news:Xns9D72BD8EE48F1f99a49ed1d0c49c5bbb2(a)74.209.136.100... > Not true. The newsgroups will continue to exist on other news > servers. It's only msnews.microsoft.com that is being shut down. You make a good point. I remember years ago when Microsoft dropped <microsoft.public.access> entirely, in favor of its subgroups, but the group wouldn't die and eventually they took it back under their wing. > That means that posts on the MS discussion website that were > previously propagated to other news servers will no longer propagate > outside MS, but, well, most of the good people in the Access > newsgroups aren't posting through MS's news server or the crappy > forum website. I'm not sure of this, though of course it depends on who you consider "good people". I know I switched years ago from my ISP's news server (back when they had one) to msnews.microsoft.com, because my ISP only carried some of the posts. And now lots of ISP's have dropped their own news servers, so many people have to post either to Microsoft's server or else pay for use of a commercial news server. My (unverified) impression from the MVPs I know is that those who post heavily in the newsgroups are using msnews. -- Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP Access tips: www.datagnostics.com/tips.html (please reply to the newsgroup)
From: Arthur Mauterer on 9 May 2010 00:54
On 5/8/10 11:13 PM, in article OYFN$3y7KHA.1888(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl, "Dirk Goldgar" <dg(a)NOdataSPAMgnostics.com.invalid> wrote: > "Richard" <Richard(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:3CE5A607-3C90-4FF4-8C50-9111B23C7D40(a)microsoft.com... >> >> Also the spam >> here is so annoying. Second almost all of the regular contributors [MVP] >> and >> others can be found else where in other forums. > > > I don't think that's true, unless you count the "forums" that are just > slurping posts from the newsgroups. I will grant, though, that there are a > number of regulars who also post regularly on Utter Access; even some who > mostly post there and only drop in on the newsgroups occasionally. |