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From: nntp on 19 May 2010 18:48

What is Happening?
This message is to inform you that Microsoft will soon begin discontinuing
newsgroups and transitioning users to Microsoft forums.

Why?
As you may know, newsgroups have existed for many years now; however, the
traffic in the Microsoft newsgroups has been steadily decreasing for the
past several years while customers and participants are increasingly finding
solutions in the forums on Microsoft properties and third party sites. This
move will unify the customer experience, centralize content, make it easier
for active contributors to retain their influence, mitigate redundancies and
make the content easier to find by customers and search engines through
improved indexing. Additionally, forums offer a better user and spam
management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by encouraging a
healthy discussion in a clean community space. To this end, Microsoft will
begin to progressively shift available resources to the forums technology
and discontinue support for newsgroups.

In addition to offering a compelling online browser experience, for those
users who prefer to use an NNTP (newsgroup) reader to participate in the
newsgroups community, we have developed a solution called the NNTP Bridge
which allows a user to connect a variety of supported NNTP readers to the
forums they would like to participate in and continue having the NTTP reader
functionality. You can find instructions on how to download and set up the
NNTP Bridge here: http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/

Which Newsgroups Are Affected by this Shutdown?
All public newsgroups will eventually be closed between June 1, 2010 and
October 1, 2010. Microsoft will be closing newsgroups in a phased approach,
starting with the least active newsgroups and moving eventually to more
active ones throughout the course of the next six months.


Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup?
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/csharplanguage/threads forum(s). An exact date will be posted in advance as plans are finalized.

Should you want to visit the other Microsoft Forums, please go to
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx

Who Should I Contact with any Questions?
Send any questions about the process, recommended forums and timing to
NNTP(a)microsoft.com
From: Peter Macej on 20 May 2010 04:49
> Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup?
> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharplanguage/threads

It seems to me that
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral
is more appropriate than csharplanguage. It is more active and meets
this newsgroup better.


--
Peter Macej
Helixoft - http://www.helixoft.com
VSdocman - Commenter and generator of class documentation for C#, VB
..NET and ASP .NET code
From: Peter Duniho on 20 May 2010 05:14
Peter Macej wrote:
>> Where Should I go with the Closure of this Newsgroup?
>> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharplanguage/threads
>
> It seems to me that
> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral
> is more appropriate than csharplanguage. It is more active and meets
> this newsgroup better.

I disagree. As badly as Microsoft has done with some of the
newsgroup-to-forums mappings, this one they got right. The forum you
recommend isn't really a programming forum per se. It's more about the
ecosystem surrounding C#, rather than about how to use the language itself.

Granted, this particular newsgroup very often digresses into more
general .NET-related questions, but even there they generally remain
involved with actually writing code, which is what the forum that
Microsoft is recommending discusses.

Pete
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