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From: RW on 20 May 2010 16:43 On Thu, 20 May 2010 10:19:02 -0700, Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote: >> In an effort to enhance and improve your experience, this newsgroup is >> scheduled for closure in the upcoming months and we would like to invite you >> to participate at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/threads forum(s). An >> exact date will be posted in advance as plans are finalized. > >Which specifically forbids discussion of the product discussed here. >Just how deeply must Microsoft despise the community to suggest such a >mockingly transparent and vapid solution? > >> Who Should I Contact with any Questions? >> Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to >> NNTP(a)microsoft.com > >Up to all of us, to let them know. Not that it will matter. More >importantly, while we can still leave cookie crumbs in the archives, we >need to start pointing folks looking for clues in the future where to >turn next. See my sig for one idea. <Tongue-in-cheek> Once this group is shut down maybe we should bombard the new off-limits forum with VB6 questions, just to keep the forum police busy canceling all the "off-topic" posts! </Tongue-in-cheek> In all seriousness, although I'm mostly a lurker I've set up an account at E-S and will monitor comp.lang.basic.visual.misc there, as well as keep watching here, until here disappears. I learn a lot just hiding in the shadows and I'm glad I will be able to do so at a new "home" that won't inundate me with "obnoxious advertising." Setting up the account with eternal-september was painless and quick. btw. RW
From: C. Kevin Provance on 20 May 2010 16:47 "Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote in message news:OvdlMCE%23KHA.4840(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... : Up to all of us, to let them know. Not that it will matter. More : importantly, while we can still leave cookie crumbs in the archives, we : need to start pointing folks looking for clues in the future where to : turn next. See my sig for one idea. I like it. Mind if I steal it? <eg> -- Customer Hatred Knows No Bounds at MSFT Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org ClassicVB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
From: Larry Serflaten on 20 May 2010 18:35 <nntp(a)microsoft.com> wrote > > What is Happening? > This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing > newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums. > Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to > NNTP(a)microsoft.com Duke U (home of Usenet) also shuttering usenet servers.... http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html Coincidence, or collusion? ???
From: Karl E. Peterson on 20 May 2010 20:08 RW wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2010 10:19:02 -0700, Karl E. Peterson <karl(a)exmvps.org> > wrote: > >>> In an effort to enhance and improve your experience, this newsgroup is >>> scheduled for closure in the upcoming months and we would like to invite >>> you to participate at >>> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vbgeneral/threads forum(s). >>> An exact date will be posted in advance as plans are finalized. >> >> Which specifically forbids discussion of the product discussed here. >> Just how deeply must Microsoft despise the community to suggest such a >> mockingly transparent and vapid solution? >> >>> Who Should I Contact with any Questions? >>> Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to >>> NNTP(a)microsoft.com >> >> Up to all of us, to let them know. Not that it will matter. More >> importantly, while we can still leave cookie crumbs in the archives, we >> need to start pointing folks looking for clues in the future where to >> turn next. See my sig for one idea. > > <Tongue-in-cheek> > Once this group is shut down maybe we should bombard the new > off-limits forum with VB6 questions, just to keep the forum police > busy canceling all the "off-topic" posts! > </Tongue-in-cheek> Well, we can certainly point to Official Notice that, despite what the signs hanging outside may say, we *were* invited! :-) > In all seriousness, although I'm mostly a lurker I've set up an > account at E-S and will monitor comp.lang.basic.visual.misc there, as > well as keep watching here, until here disappears. I learn a lot just > hiding in the shadows and I'm glad I will be able to do so at a new > "home" that won't inundate me with "obnoxious advertising." > > Setting up the account with eternal-september was painless and quick. > btw. Yep, seems to even get the posts made to this server sooner than the this server feeds 'em back! -- ..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
From: Karl E. Peterson on 20 May 2010 20:09
C. Kevin Provance wrote: > "Karl E. Peterson" <karl(a)exmvps.org> wrote... >> Up to all of us, to let them know. Not that it will matter. More >> importantly, while we can still leave cookie crumbs in the archives, we >> need to start pointing folks looking for clues in the future where to >> turn next. See my sig for one idea. > > I like it. Mind if I steal it? <eg> Not at all! The more the merrier. It's for a good cause. :-) -- ..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 |