Re: NEWSGROUPS ?

SharePoint is infinitely customizable and programmable. I would not be surprised if there already is a replacement for news groups in MOSS 2007.

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After furious head scratching, F. H. Muffman asked:

| "DarkSentinel" <darksentinel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:Kq60j.92$2h1.62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
||| PFs are being migrated to SharePoint and NNTP is on its deathbed, to
||| listen to some.
|||
||
|| Again, one of MS's endless force em to upgrade deals. And no I'm not
|| starting a flame MS thread. All the software houses do it. This is
|| where we want to go with this, and you are going to have to upgrade
|| whether you like it or not. I always like the public folders. But
|| then again, my old company was an Exchange 5 house, so.....
||
|| What is slated to replace NNTP then? RSS or something of that
|| nature? I am a firm believer in the "If it ain't broke, don't fix
|| it" camp. But hey, who knows the replacement just may be better.
|| Just hope it will be better than the marginal increases in
|| functionality so prevalent now days. Good example is OE vs. WLM. To
|| be honest the eye candy upgrade sucks, but that is just for me.
|| Perhaps it is because I am so used to the look and feel of OE. The
|| only real functionality improvement I can discern is the ability to
|| choose to top or bottom post, and the safety options I guess. They
|| even took a step backwards, when the removed the Block Sender
|| functionality as implemented in OE. And again, MS is not the only
|| house that is doing this. Seems like everyone wants to take 2 step
|| forwards, and one step back. Maybe I'm just getting overly picky in
|| my old age...lol
|
| I doubt anything is scheduled to replace it. I'd wager that the
| number of customers MS has using the NNTP functionality of Exchange
| was low enough that there isn't that much of an outcry that it is
| going away.
|
| I doubt they even when into the 'death of usenet' fud when making the
| decision. It was solely 'Do we have users using this?'
|
| Are there *some*? I'm sure there are. But, with PFs going away, the
| question of how NNTP could be handled without PFs was probably
| suitably complex that they weren't too concerned there either.
|
| Which also leads to the obvious question. If sharepoint is the
| replacement for PFs, is there a NNTP importer type application for
| Sharepoint?
.

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