Microsoft closing their newsgroups??

[Tim Roberts]

Wouldn't you be starting from scratch then? All that message history
that currently exists would be lost, wouldn't it?

Google has it.

 

[Jeff Johnson]

Google has it.

Three or four years ago I would have agreed with you. Have you tried
searching the newsgroups via Google recently?

 

[cate]

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

Anyone know if it's *all* the microsoft groups. Be a great shame
if they do.

mick

REALLY to bad. uS has never learned how to create a simple
interface. Over production comes to mind. Looks really nice but they
refuse to let your eye do its work. They'll windup with something
like 15 C# catagories, each with a little drop down, 4 lines in the
answer scroll, and .... you get the picture. They are in the middle
of ruining Yahoo right now - javascript jump ups, rounded corners,
little people images... god! Please stay off my yahoo finance page!
(although who ever build that expandable stock chart should get a
raise)

There was a great article about craigs list in the wsj a few weeks
ago; a discussion of this very matter - simple business interfaces.


How many fonts will be on the new uS stuff?
How many colors?
How many topics per screen (2 ... but very pretty)


sorry...

 

[Tim Roberts]

How many fonts will be on the new uS stuff?
How many colors?
How many topics per screen (2 ... but very pretty)

You don't have to guess about this. The MSDN forums have existed for many
years. You can go browse them right now. They are as bad as you imply.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

[...]
But because many ISP has been closing down their news services, then
some dedicated news services are showing up. [...]

My observation from the handful of ISPs I deal with is that they simply
contract out to Giganews or Supernews if they want to provide their
users with NNTP access.

There's very little real competition in that space, as far as I can
tell. If Giganews and Supernews decide to keep the newsgroups, then that
will probably be enough to keep them healthy (well, as healthy as they
can be with fewer and fewer people choosing NNTP as their protocol of
choice).

If those two don't decide to keep the newsgroups, I don't think the
way-smaller ones will be enough to keep them going.

GigaNews and SuperNews are not so relevant. They make money
from providing the binary groups to lots of people. They won't
care about .NET groups.

I am talking about the free servers, that only carries
text groups and where developers is their primary
customer group (as far as such a term makes sense
for a free service).

I think they will be interested in carrying the .NET
groups.

Arne

 

[Dan Holmes]

[...]
But because many ISP has been closing down their news services, then
some dedicated news services are showing up. [...]

My observation from the handful of ISPs I deal with is that they simply
contract out to Giganews or Supernews if they want to provide their
users with NNTP access.

There's very little real competition in that space, as far as I can
tell. If Giganews and Supernews decide to keep the newsgroups, then that
will probably be enough to keep them healthy (well, as healthy as they
can be with fewer and fewer people choosing NNTP as their protocol of
choice).

If those two don't decide to keep the newsgroups, I don't think the
way-smaller ones will be enough to keep them going.

GigaNews and SuperNews are not so relevant. They make money
from providing the binary groups to lots of people. They won't
care about .NET groups.

I am talking about the free servers, that only carries
text groups and where developers is their primary
customer group (as far as such a term makes sense
for a free service).

I think they will be interested in carrying the .NET
groups.

Arne

Looks like eternal-september does.

http://www.eternal-september.org/groups.php?hierarchy=microsoft