The last day

[steve.buckley]

See the link I posted Gary

Ron, why are your explanations so much clearer than the one's the
techies explain?!?!!!
I just spent two days attempting to figure out how to use the nntp
bridge program from codeplex, and after spending part of that time
reading, I come to your link, and I get it in 15 minutes!

Thank you.

 

[Jef Gorbach]

odd that the "last day" was 2-weeks ago and the NG is still alive and
kicking, although traffic IS way down and for some reason the spam is
up .... come back people, WE havent left! lol

 

[Gordon]

odd that the "last day" was 2-weeks ago and the NG is still alive and
kicking, although traffic IS way down and for some reason the spam is
up .... come back people, WE havent left! lol

These groups still exist through news servers other than
msnews.microsoft.com. The traffic is down because most people either
subscribed via msnews.microsoft.com (I did) or used these groups via the
'orrible web interface. I presume that most of those users are now using the
forums. (And a right dozy bunch they are there too - never seen so many
STUPID posts in all my days...)

 

[Max]

.. I presume that most of those users are now using the forums ..

One thought - Don't think so. From what I can see happening in those
"new" MS forums, think these MS forums captured precious little of the
previous volume of daily posts in the MS webpages. The migration
exercise by MS seems a failure. My gut feel is only 5% migrated. I
really wonder where the rest of the posters (95%) go to now?

 

[Helmut Meukel]

These groups still exist through news servers other than msnews.microsoft.com.
The traffic is down because most people either subscribed via
msnews.microsoft.com (I did) or used these groups via the 'orrible web
interface. I presume that most of those users are now using the forums. (And a
right dozy bunch they are there too - never seen so many STUPID posts in all
my days...)

One thing to add:
Iwas subscribed via news.microsoft.com and I thought this would be
no problem at all. I had some posts with interesting stuff marked in my
news reader and already exported some of these tips, but not all.
Then the groups were removed from the M$ servers. Guess what
Microsoft Mail (Vista) and OE did? They automatically deleted the
posts from my PCs -- the setting was: *not* synchronize!
Ok, I switched to another news server and downloded the postings
from there, but the markings are gone and I have to read through
all posts to find the stuff I am interested in.

It seems you can't search the bodys of multiple mails for a keyword
in Windows Mail, grrr.

Helmut.

 

[Jef Gorbach]

One thought - Don't think so. From what I can see happening in those
"new" MS forums, think these MS forums captured precious little of the
previous volume of daily posts in the MS webpages. The migration
exercise by MS seems a failure. My gut feel is only 5% migrated. I
really wonder where the rest of the posters (95%) go to now?

the other 95% likely didnt know google/others can still access this
group so reluctantly accepted the global-knowledge-base's downfall,
returning to self-reliance given MS's "improvement" seems anything
but.