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Old June 2nd, 2010, 02:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
Douglas J. Steele[_3_]
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Default Let's pick a replacement for this (Access) newsgroup

#3. For quite a few years now, Microsoft has been running a number of news
servers with the address msnews.microsoft.com. On those servers, there are a
number of NNTP newsgroups with a high level of microsoft.public.*.

Microsoft also has a web interface to interact with those newsgroups. In
actual fact, the web interface is a relatively new thing: for years,
Microsoft simply had the news servers and you had to use a news reader to
interact with the forums.

They're turning off the servers, and shutting down their web interface.

However, since they're NNTP newsgroups, they're propagated to hundreds of
other servers, and it's extremely doubtful that those other servers are
going away.

So as long as you have a newsgroup reader and the ability to log onto one of
the many other servers that carry the groups, they're not really going away.

The issue is that since Microsoft is making it so much harder, we expect the
volume of posts to decrease significantly.

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Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
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Co-author: Access 2010 Solutions, published by Wiley
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"Fred" wrote in message
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I think that I am confused on what "newsgroup" means with regard to the
termination notices. Could somebody enlighten me? As far as I
understand
it, there are two definitions of "newsgroups" at work he

1. The Microsoft name for the question and answer area which is nicely
organized with a section for Access, and functionally defined subsections.

2. A technical way of accessing #1 (which I don't understand) which
involves a method other than the Microsoft web interface.

Are they shutting down #1, #2 or both?