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From: Roger on 9 Jul 2010 13:36 Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups . Roger
From: Bob I on 9 Jul 2010 13:46 You haven't lost them, they merely don't exist on the Microsoft news server anymore. You'll have to use another newsserver or google groups if you don't want to use Microsoft Answers (which is the "official" replacement) Roger wrote: > Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost > newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups . > > Roger > >
From: LVTravel on 9 Jul 2010 13:49 "Roger" <Monkey(a)Zoo.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message news:eKhKB14HLHA.6120(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost > newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups . > > Roger > MS is dropping the newsgroups in favor of forums (yuck) and all of the MS newsgroups will be gone by sometime in Oct this year IIRC. If you have another news server you are using that has the old MS newsgroups you can access them from there (I use eternal-september.org's) for my posts but most of the NGs are now dead and no one is posting on them. I have slowly dropped them as subscribed in my news reader.
From: kraut on 9 Jul 2010 14:01 On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:49:38 -0400, "LVTravel" <none(a)nothere.com> wrote: >> Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost >> newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups . >> >> Roger >> > >MS is dropping the newsgroups in favor of forums (yuck) and all of the MS >newsgroups will be gone by sometime in Oct this year They will not be gone. The MS news server will be gone but the groups will still be there. You will just have to find another news server that carries them. news.eternal-september.org is one that does and it is a free server but you have to register.
From: Roger on 9 Jul 2010 14:45
"kraut" <kraut3852(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:dsoe36duk6m38jq6js9q25v00va445l6k5(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:49:38 -0400, "LVTravel" <none(a)nothere.com> > wrote: > >>> Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost >>> newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups . >>> >>> Roger >>> >> >>MS is dropping the newsgroups in favor of forums (yuck) and all of the MS >>newsgroups will be gone by sometime in Oct this year > > > They will not be gone. The MS news server will be gone but the groups > will still be there. You will just have to find another news server > that carries them. > > news.eternal-september.org is one that does and it is a free server > but you have to register. > Thank you all for this information. |