Newsgroups going bye-bye
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From: Gary Brown on 25 May 2010 09:09 I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of a Forum format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft Forums. I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exceldev/threads?prof=required&ppud=4]. I have 2 questions. 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we Excel oriented people can hang out? -- Gary Brown
From: FSt1 on 25 May 2010 09:44 this is the one i was directed to. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/officeexcel i'm not impressed. Regards FSt1 "Gary Brown" wrote: > I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of > a Forum > format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less > and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft > Forums. > I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum > [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exceldev/threads?prof=required&ppud=4]. > I have 2 questions. > 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? > 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we > Excel oriented people can hang out? > > -- > Gary Brown >
From: Gary''s Student on 25 May 2010 09:55 Another one for VBA: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/isvvba/threads -- Gary''s Student - gsnu201003 "FSt1" wrote: > this is the one i was directed to. > http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/officeexcel > i'm not impressed. > > Regards > FSt1 > > "Gary Brown" wrote: > > > I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of > > a Forum > > format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less > > and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft > > Forums. > > I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum > > [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exceldev/threads?prof=required&ppud=4]. > > I have 2 questions. > > 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? > > 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we > > Excel oriented people can hang out? > > > > -- > > Gary Brown > >
From: JLGWhiz on 25 May 2010 09:54 Unless MS has something that they have not unveiled, that is their replacement for the newsgroups. Like you, I was not all that overwhelmed but with time, maybe it can develop into something. I like the chat room environment much better. "FSt1" <FSt1(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C8E26893-8ABE-447E-B458-5E22D83CF347(a)microsoft.com... > this is the one i was directed to. > http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/officeexcel > i'm not impressed. > > Regards > FSt1 > > "Gary Brown" wrote: > >> I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in >> favor of >> a Forum >> format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less >> and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft >> Forums. >> I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum >> [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exceldev/threads?prof=required&ppud=4]. >> I have 2 questions. >> 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? >> 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we >> Excel oriented people can hang out? >> >> -- >> Gary Brown >>
From: Martin Brown on 25 May 2010 10:29
On 25/05/2010 14:09, Gary Brown wrote: > I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of > a Forum > format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less > and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft > Forums. Wait and see :-) The MickeySoft NNTP server may well be turned off and cease to exist on 1 Jun1 2010 but I expect that is just about all that happens. I doubt they will be able to cancel their newsgroups existing on all the global newservers (and even if they tried how many would honour cancels?). It is easy to create newsgroups but very hard to remove them! > I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum > [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exceldev/threads?prof=required&ppud=4]. > I have 2 questions. > 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? > 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we > Excel oriented people can hang out? Stay around here at least until traffic completely expires. Regards, Martin Brown |