Vista and an NNTP bug

[Jeff]

Interesting little bug that just happened in the private NG's just now-seems
it made us "common folk" privy to some inside info-just for a quick sec-Ahh
very interesting to see how MS and MVP's really view these groups not to
mention Beta tester's;and what's really going on inside the Vista world.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

How d'ya mean exactly?

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[Jeff]

Ah Zach,
Without getting myself into bad "graces" with MS let me just say this.
About an hour back;I was in the private news NNTP;then all of a sudden
my newsgroup disappeared and POOF a WHOLE bunch of private MVP NG's popped
up and were downloading messages into my pc.
Not being the vindictive sort-I won't name any specific people-however
to validate this-one group in particular was- Private.MVP.Coffeehouse. One
was private.mvp.expert zone, etc. All in all approximately 20 newsgroups
were "open" to anyone-for awhile that I saw; and it was Quite
interesting;the interactions of MVP's and MS employees. especially one
instance about voting, MVP&MS interaction and features and timetables for
Vista.
Don't want to get anyone in trouble,least of which;myself.
Suffice it to say; I have knowledge gained; by someone's mistake;that
seriously changes my opinion about many in these groups.
Not to worry, I didn't run across any posts from you or Andre!!! LOL
Jeff

 

[Gaoler]

Interesting little bug that just happened in the private NG's just now-seems
it made us "common folk" privy to some inside info-just for a quick sec-Ahh
very interesting to see how MS and MVP's really view these groups not to
mention Beta tester's;and what's really going on inside the Vista world.

Running 5308, I can't get Windows Mail to connect to any other news
servers I use except msnews.microsoft.com. Anyone else have luck with this?

 

[Gaoler]

Suffice it to say; I have knowledge gained; by someone's mistake;that
seriously changes my opinion about many in these groups.

For better or for worse?

 

[AMDX2]

Running 5308, I can't get Windows Mail to connect to any other news
servers I use except msnews.microsoft.com. Anyone else have luck with
this?

It's not much different in beta 2. it connects, but wont download the groups
list.

 

[Gaoler]

It's not much different in beta 2. it connects, but wont download the groups
list.

Thanks for the feedback. I hope they fix it soon! Thankfully I have
had no issues with the latest version of Thunderbird running on Vista
yet.