msnews.Microsoft.com - R.I.P finally?

[occam]

A month after the blog announcement, the inevitable has happened today?

 

[Randy Knobloch]

A month after the blog announcement, the inevitable has happened today?

NNTP via Outlook Express is still working on some NG's that I used to visit.

 

[Randy Knobloch]

I take back my last statement, NNTP was working a minute ago, now it is not.
The message you will get polling NNTP via a newsreader such as Outlook Express,
Windows Live mail or Forté Agent, will see the message say "group no longer exists" ...

When exiting, it will disappear from you NNTP list.

I would like to hear from someone from MS as to what tool, etc are require for those
that wish to view MS news as there is a Bridge Tool which allows you to poll NNTP
from the Web, seems like a waste of time if the true place now for MS News is the web.

For those that were subscribed to NNTP, what do those users do with extraneous messages
left in the data store never to be used again ! Is there a process to purge those or are we
to assume we must find them ourselves ?

 

[Randy Knobloch]

Question asked was what does one do with NNTP local data store now that all MS News has gone
web-wise.
<http://social.answers.microsoft.com.../thread/d56e5e77-0163-4a94-b3da-023c097d2c72/>

Pending answer.

 

[occam]

I take back my last statement, NNTP was working a minute ago, now it is not.
The message you will get polling NNTP via a newsreader such as Outlook Express,
Windows Live mail or Forté Agent, will see the message say "group no longer exists" ...

When exiting, it will disappear from you NNTP list.

Yep, same on Thundebird ;-)

(I'm not winking, that's a tear.)

 

[Jean Rosenfeld]

I still access some of the microsoft.public newsgroups using
freenews.netfront.net

A month after the blog announcement, the inevitable has happened today?

NNTP via Outlook Express is still working on some NG's that I used to visit.

 

[Randy Knobloch]

I still access some of the microsoft.public newsgroups using
freenews.netfront.net

I use <http://www.eternal-september.org/> to access Usenet to fetch
yet the MS NG's may soon go poof from all
Usenet servers once MS has brought them all to the Web UI.

What is happening and what will happen, eventually.
<http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx>