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Old June 3rd, 2010, 10:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted
Rick Brandt
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Default Let's pick a replacement for this (Access) newsgroup

John W. Vinson wrote:

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:03:55 +0200, Steve Hayes
wrote:

Will the replacement one connect to Microsoft?


THIS one won't, that's for certain.

The Microsoft forums will be run on Microsoft's own hardware, so yes; they
won't propagate to USENET however.

If not, why not continue with this one, which already has critical mass?


People coming from the Microsoft "get online help" buttons in the programs
will not know about these newsgroups, and will not have any way from
within Microsoft's software to get to them, so these newsgroups will
probably dwindle to a small subset of sophisticated, experienced users,
contending for bandwidth with spammers and trolls. The bulk of the "new
questions" will, I fear, go elsewhere.


I for one expect to see the quality of topics rise considerably.