Vanishing Newsgroups

[Roger]

Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost
newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups .

Roger

 

[Bob I]

You haven't lost them, they merely don't exist on the Microsoft news
server anymore. You'll have to use another newsserver or google groups
if you don't want to use Microsoft Answers (which is the "official"
replacement)

 

[LVTravel]

Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have lost
newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6 groups .

Roger

MS is dropping the newsgroups in favor of forums (yuck) and all of the MS
newsgroups will be gone by sometime in Oct this year IIRC. If you have
another news server you are using that has the old MS newsgroups you can
access them from there (I use eternal-september.org's) for my posts but most
of the NGs are now dead and no one is posting on them. I have slowly
dropped them as subscribed in my news reader.

 

[kraut]

MS is dropping the newsgroups in favor of forums (yuck) and all of the MS
newsgroups will be gone by sometime in Oct this year

They will not be gone. The MS news server will be gone but the groups
will still be there. You will just have to find another news server
that carries them.

news.eternal-september.org is one that does and it is a free server
but you have to register.

 

[Roger]

They will not be gone. The MS news server will be gone but the groups
will still be there. You will just have to find another news server
that carries them.

news.eternal-september.org is one that does and it is a free server
but you have to register.

Thank you all for this information.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

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

IE General, OE General, OE6, Windows Update, Win98 General, & WLMessenger
were some of the newsgroups dropped late last week. IE6 was dropped in
early June.

 

[LVTravel]

Really? I'm not so sure about that, but then again, I haven't counted.
I expect that many of us have just gone over to a different newserver.

It will be interesting to see how many still stay active, however, after
the forums really kick in. Hopefully a lot still will, however, as who
really wants a forum based format? I still think the NNTP format for
these simple text exchanges is preferable over the web page based format.

Microsoft is dropping their newsgroups by removing all from their servers.
Many of the newsgroups can still be accessed using another mirror of the MS
newsgroups which I am doing using eternal-september.org. Many of the
newsgroups are now not receiving any new posts and even some that I have
responded to recently are dying from lack of participation. What will
remain is anyone's guess past October when all the news.microsoft.com
newsgroups are no more.

 

[~*Laughingstar*~]

so much for believing I was doing so well! What will "we" do without our
mentors???

--
Ciao -

CarolJhThompson
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are
spiritual beings having a human experience ( Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin)."

 

[BigRedWingsFan]

so much for believing I was doing so well! What will "we" do without our
mentors???

Get real help perhaps.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

You'll find most of us over in MS Answers forums:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp

Internet Explorer =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/threads

Outlook Express, etc. =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpnetwork/threads

Windows Update =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/threads

Hopefully your screenreader will get along with Answers forums, too, LS.

 

[~*Laughingstar*~]

that eternal.september thing (from a support NG standpoint) is ridiculous.
No moderation, all advertising - at best!!!

so much for believing I was doing so well! What will "we" do
without our mentors???

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

IE General, OE General, OE6, Windows Update, Win98 General, &
WLMessenger were some of the newsgroups dropped late last week.
IE6 was dropped in early June.

Roger wrote:
Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have
lost newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6
groups

--
Ciao -

CarolJhThompson
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are
spiritual beings having a human experience ( Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin)."

 

[~*Laughingstar*~]

I always have wonderful help from PA Bear, John, Vanguard, MVP, and database
ben, et al. . . no complaints here!!!

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

IE General, OE General, OE6, Windows Update, Win98 General, &
WLMessenger were some of the newsgroups dropped late last week.
IE6 was dropped in early June.

Roger wrote:
Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have
lost newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6
groups

--
Ciao -

CarolJhThompson
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are
spiritual beings having a human experience ( Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin)."

 

[~*Laughingstar*~]

Good Gravy, PA Bear, that is one confusing mess.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories
One will have to be totally out of options to try that thing. Has MS gone
nuts???

I guess they're trying to force users to Live and Google. grrrrrr

 

[~*Laughingstar*~]

You're still one of my heros!!!

You'll find most of us over in MS Answers forums:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp

Internet Explorer =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/threads

Outlook Express, etc. =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpnetwork/threads

Windows Update =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/threads

Hopefully your screenreader will get along with Answers forums, too,
LS.

so much for believing I was doing so well! What will "we" do
without our mentors???

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

IE General, OE General, OE6, Windows Update, Win98 General, &
WLMessenger were some of the newsgroups dropped late last week.
IE6 was dropped in early June.

Roger wrote:
Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have
lost newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6
groups

 

[Dan]

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

IE General, OE General, OE6, Windows Update, Win98 General, & WLMessenger
were some of the newsgroups dropped late last week. IE6 was dropped in
early June.


.

Sadly, posting in Windows 98 General newsgroup is very low now. It was a
fairly active newsgroup before it was removed from the Microsoft server.

 

[~*Laughingstar*~]

When I copy/saved this post PA Bear, I noticed in the Word Microsoft Folder
I created, many of your other remedies, as well. Thanks so much. Can we
erect a black flag in here as we go 'out?'

so much for believing I was doing so well! What will "we" do
without our mentors???

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
See http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/default.mspx

IE General, OE General, OE6, Windows Update, Win98 General, &
WLMessenger were some of the newsgroups dropped late last week.
IE6 was dropped in early June.

Roger wrote:
Can anyone inform me , from my return from holiday I find I have
lost newsgroups like windows outlook express, Hardware, and ie6
groups

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

~*Laughingstar*~ wrote:

I always have wonderful help from PA Bear, John, Vanguard, MVP, and
database
ben, et al. . . no complaints here!!!

[Robear] Don't forget Bruce in OE General newsgroup!

PS: Thanks for all your very kind words in this thread.

 

[~*Laughingstar*~]

~*Laughingstar*~ wrote:

I always have wonderful help from PA Bear, John, Vanguard, MVP, and
database
ben, et al. . . no complaints here!!!

[Robear] Don't forget Bruce in OE General newsgroup!

;-)) Of course not.

PS: Thanks for all your very kind words in this thread.

the most you' receive, is the least you deserve.

 

[Roger]

You'll find most of us over in MS Answers forums:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp

Internet Explorer =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/threads

Outlook Express, etc. =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpnetwork/threads

Windows Update =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/threads

Hopefully your screenreader will get along with Answers forums, too, LS.

[Snip] Can I add the above, to my OE window on left pane, as I did with
my MS NG's e g I have at moment listed msnews.microsoft.com only this
group heading left on it

Roger

 

[~*Laughingstar*~]

You'll find most of us over in MS Answers forums:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp

Internet Explorer =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/threads

Outlook Express, etc. =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/xpnetwork/threads

Windows Update =>
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/threads

Hopefully your screenreader will get along with Answers forums,
too, LS.

[Snip] Can I add the above, to my OE window on left pane, as I
did with my MS NG's e g I have at moment listed
msnews.microsoft.com only this group heading left on it

Roger

Good question, Roger. I'm hanging on like blind bat in a cave. :-(