Re: NEWSGROUPS ?

"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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