Re: Newsgroup changes?

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What that reply said is the _if_ the poster wanted priority support then the posting must be to the MSDN forums after signing in. It appears that any notification re eligibility for priority support will be only be coming from the registered name used for access to the managed forums. I can post at microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb or I can post at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums without signing in, or I can sign in and post there. Only the third option provides access to priority support.

There is no suggestion in that message that any of those options will cease.

Windows 3.1 newsgroups are still being hosted on MSNews.Microsoft.com. If there was some plan to start trimming back the number of newsgroups, I would expect the trimmng to start with something older than VB.

"mayayana" <mayaXXyana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uMAnnHGHKHA.4376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
dpb <none@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:h61qu0$9hg$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mayayana wrote:
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It does appear one might infer that MS will no longer formally use
employees to monitor/respond other than via the managed groups > interface

Yes. The MS employee basically refused to answer
the post and asked that all future posts be done in
the forum. As you said, that doesn't make much difference
to us here. The MS employees don't answer questions
here, anyway. But with newer groups only existing as
forums, this new behavior made me wonder: Will MS just
shut down the msnews server once the forums are
established? With the various comp.* and alt.* groups
having withered over the years, msnews groups are the
only ones that I currently subscribe to.


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