Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community

"M Skabialka" wrote in
:

Let me rephrase: When I use Outlook Express to add an account, it
asks for the name of the News (NNTP) Server. I want the one where
I would find comp.databases.ms-access and other USENET groups.
What is the name of that server?

I think you don't understand Usenet. Newsgroups do not exist on a
single server -- it is a distributed network. Each individual news
server administrator will decide which newsgroups to carry. I know
that eternalseptember carries CDMA, for instance, as I monitor it in
comparison to my news server (newsguy.com, a pay service).

You might want to read the Wikipedia article on Usenet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

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David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
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John W. Vinson wrote in
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On Thu, 20 May 2010 10:02:02 -0500, "M Skabialka"
wrote:

Where are all of the microsoft.public.access.xxxxx groups I am
used to - or will they only become available once the forum is
closed down?

At present there is only the one group, shared between Access,
Visio, InfoPath and Project. There's some discussion ongoing about
providing more groups but at present, that's not happening.

Can you give the name of that group?

I tried the NNTP bridge and it's a pile of crap. I haven't looked at
it since.

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On 20 May 2010 22:53:30 GMT, "David W. Fenton"
wrote:

John W. Vinson wrote in
:

On Thu, 20 May 2010 10:02:02 -0500, "M Skabialka"
wrote:

Where are all of the microsoft.public.access.xxxxx groups I am
used to - or will they only become available once the forum is
closed down?

At present there is only the one group, shared between Access,
Visio, InfoPath and Project. There's some discussion ongoing about
providing more groups but at present, that's not happening.

Can you give the name of that group?

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...addbuz/threads


I tried the NNTP bridge and it's a pile of crap. I haven't looked at
it since.

The second incarnation of it is supposedly a lot better. Haven't tried it
myself though.
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John W. Vinson [MVP]