Hi

I have only just "caught up with" the dropping of the vba group from the
Microsoft servers. I was puzzled why it was so difficult to find helpful
material on how to connect this group using a newsreader.

Eventually I found a post on the Google archives from Dave Peterson (thanks
Dave!).

Thought it might be useful to have more info on one of the MVP's web sites,
if possible? That's a suggestion, not a complaint, of course!

hth

Tim

You want to access the new MS Forums??

See Ron de Bruin's site.

http://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm

Via a news reader alone??

Use this server................news.eternal-september.org


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:15:38 +0100, "Tim Childs_eternal" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have only just "caught up with" the dropping of the vba group from the
>Microsoft servers. I was puzzled why it was so difficult to find helpful
>material on how to connect this group using a newsreader.
>
>Eventually I found a post on the Google archives from Dave Peterson (thanks
>Dave!).
>
>Thought it might be useful to have more info on one of the MVP's web sites,
>if possible? That's a suggestion, not a complaint, of course!
>
>hth
>
>Tim
>

In message <(E-Mail Removed)> of Fri, 10 Sep
2010 14:41:13 in microsoft.public.excel.programming, Gord Dibben
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes

Your reference to news.eternal-september.org looks very useful.
I have connected to it and it consists of about 10k groups.
How are Microsoft forum names mapped to newsgroup names?
Where should I look for Excel forums?
I am having trouble using wildcards in filters of 100k+ newsgroup names.

>You want to access the new MS Forums??
>
>See Ron de Bruin's site.
>
>http://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm
>
>Via a news reader alone??
>
>Use this server................news.eternal-september.org
>
>
>Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
>
>On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:15:38 +0100, "Tim Childs_eternal" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I have only just "caught up with" the dropping of the vba group from the
>>Microsoft servers. I was puzzled why it was so difficult to find helpful
>>material on how to connect this group using a newsreader.
>>
>>Eventually I found a post on the Google archives from Dave Peterson (thanks
>>Dave!).
>>
>>Thought it might be useful to have more info on one of the MVP's web sites,
>>if possible? That's a suggestion, not a complaint, of course!
>>
>>hth
>>
>>Tim
>>

--
Walter Briscoe