I did think the timing of the messages was suspect, but ours not to reason
why.

FWIW, if you post to Usenet directly with an NNTP newsreader, there is no
"posting limit." g

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
[I wrote this at 5:15 but ran into the "google posting limit"]

Have I been speaking in prose all my life? I simply open a new tab in
IE and go to groups.google.com, and there are all my six newsgroups --
the NY subways one, the linguistics one, the classical music one, the
cryptic crosswords one, and this one (plus the fonts group that gets a
post once in a blue moon).

And this afternoon, suddenly there's a flood of messages here, all of
them claiming to have been posted in the last half hour, which seems
unlikely. Someone at MS must have turned the tap back on.

On May 27, 2:36 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
But Peter eschews newsreaders.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message

...



Note that you can make use of the Microsoft Answers NNTP Bridge to
access
the forums via a newsreader. See
http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Ok, I just looked at the "social answers" page linked in another
thread. It's horrible -- taking up the whole screen with pointless
graphics decoration, allowing very few topics to be visible at once,
requiring far more clicking and scrolling than google groups -- what
(if anything) were they thinking?????

On May 27, 8:12 am, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Since this is the only thread I have encountered this morning in the
entire
microsoft.public.word hierarchy, I suspect you must be right.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message

.. .

The modest increase in traffic on the Answers forum and the
disappearance
of traffic from here suggests that the link has been severed, but
that
the
hapless user has not yet found his way to the new forum.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web sitewww.gmayor.com
Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org


"Stefan Blom" wrote in
message
...
I've noticed it too.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
(Message posted via NNTP)

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I have noted considerable fall-off in all the msnews NGs. I think
people
have already started migrating to Answers, as there seems to be a
steady
increase in questions posted there.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
...
Has the newsgroup been turned off? No new posting since 9:24 am
(EDT)!-- "Peter T. Daniels"
wrote in message
...
Has the newsgroup been turned off? No new posting since 9:24 am
(EDT)!--