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[danklebs]

There needs to be a show my posts button or something because I can never
find my post. Something that will take you to your posts. That would be
extremely helpful

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[John W. Vinson]

There needs to be a show my posts button or something because I can never
find my post. Something that will take you to your posts. That would be
extremely helpful

At least while the newsgroups still live, that can be done at
http://groups.google.com. Use Advanced Search.

 

[Ron Hinds]

That is an extremely useful function of the Outlook Express newsreader,
which, sadly, won't work for very much longer since MS is moving to a web
forum-based system and away from NNTP ;-(

 

[SuzyQ]

It's a good suggestion, but I get around the issue by putting my user name in
the search box. It brings up a list of everything I originally posted and
also my replies, but it narrows the search quite a bit and is quite helpful.

 

[Richard]

It's a good suggestion, but I get around the issue by putting my user name in
the search box. It brings up a list of everything I originally posted and
also my replies, but it narrows the search quite a bit and is quite helpful.

I have been doing that for years works every time its tried. Also the spam
here is so annoying. Second almost all of the regular contributors [MVP] and
others can be found else where in other forums.

 

[David W. Fenton]

At least while the newsgroups still live, that can be done at
http://groups.google.com. Use Advanced Search.

There's nothing MS can do to kill the instances of the
microsoft.public.* newsgroups hosted on other news servers, so I'm
pretty sure things will continue.

I, for one, think it would be better if there were a single
newsgroup for Access questions, as the breakdown by topic in the
ms.public hierarchy just makes it hard to figure out where to look
for answers. If everybody moved to comp.databases.ms-access, that
would not be a disaster, in my opinion.

 

[David W. Fenton]

That is an extremely useful function of the Outlook Express
newsreader, which, sadly, won't work for very much longer since MS
is moving to a web forum-based system and away from NNTP ;-(

Not true. The newsgroups will continue to exist on other news
servers. It's only msnews.microsoft.com that is being shut down.
That means that posts on the MS discussion website that were
previously propagated to other news servers will no longer propagate
outside MS, but, well, most of the good people in the Access
newsgroups aren't posting through MS's news server or the crappy
forum website.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Also the spam
here is so annoying. Second almost all of the regular contributors [MVP]
and
others can be found else where in other forums.

I don't think that's true, unless you count the "forums" that are just
slurping posts from the newsgroups. I will grant, though, that there are a
number of regulars who also post regularly on Utter Access; even some who
mostly post there and only drop in on the newsgroups occasionally.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Not true. The newsgroups will continue to exist on other news
servers. It's only msnews.microsoft.com that is being shut down.

You make a good point. I remember years ago when Microsoft dropped

That means that posts on the MS discussion website that were
previously propagated to other news servers will no longer propagate
outside MS, but, well, most of the good people in the Access
newsgroups aren't posting through MS's news server or the crappy
forum website.

I'm not sure of this, though of course it depends on who you consider "good
people". I know I switched years ago from my ISP's news server (back when
they had one) to msnews.microsoft.com, because my ISP only carried some of
the posts. And now lots of ISP's have dropped their own news servers, so
many people have to post either to Microsoft's server or else pay for use of
a commercial news server. My (unverified) impression from the MVPs I know
is that those who post heavily in the newsgroups are using msnews.

 

[Arthur Mauterer]

I don't think that's true, unless you count the "forums" that are just
slurping posts from the newsgroups. I will grant, though, that there are a
number of regulars who also post regularly on Utter Access; even some who
mostly post there and only drop in on the newsgroups occasionally.

 

[David W. Fenton]

You make a good point. I remember years ago when Microsoft dropped
<microsoft.public.access> entirely, in favor of its subgroups, but
the group
wouldn't die and eventually they took it back under their wing.


I'm not sure of this, though of course it depends on who you
consider "good people". I know I switched years ago from my ISP's
news server (back when they had one) to msnews.microsoft.com,
because my ISP only carried some of the posts. And now lots of
ISP's have dropped their own news servers, so many people have to
post either to Microsoft's server or else pay for use of a
commercial news server. My (unverified) impression from the MVPs
I know is that those who post heavily in the newsgroups are using
msnews.

Well, one could figure that out by looking at the headers of their
messages.

There is free newsgroup access to text-based groups provided by
Eternal September:

http://www.eternal-september.org/

Their coverage is perfectly good (I have them set up and compare
them to the MS news server and Newsguy.com, which is what I use as
my main news server).

I'm trying the NNTP Bridge for the MS forums, but it's pretty ugly.
If you think the organization of the microsoft.public.* newsgroups
was bad, you haven't seen anything. xNews couldn't deal with the
non-ASCII content (did you know that none of the NNTP-related RFCs
has ever allowed for high-ASCII, let alone Unicode?), so I'm right
now downloading content with Thunderbird to see if it can handle it.
Thunderbird is able to properly display the non-compliant content
headers, but so far, I haven't found anything useful.

I'll continue reporting as I work with it.