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Old May 21st, 2010, 05:57 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Robert Macy[_2_]
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Default will this usenet group disappear too?

How many, which ones, of microsoftusenet groups will disappear?

Will this one, too?
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Old May 21st, 2010, 06:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Stefan Blom[_3_]
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Default will this usenet group disappear too?

On Usenet, the groups may live on, but Microsoft's server msnews.microsoft.com
will be shut down on June 1st.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP
(Message posted via NNTP)



"Robert Macy" wrote in message
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How many, which ones, of microsoftusenet groups will disappear?

Will this one, too?



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Old May 21st, 2010, 07:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
trip_to_tokyo[_3_]
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Robert, my understanding is that it is being replaced by:-

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword

Hope the above helps.


"Robert Macy" wrote:

How many, which ones, of microsoftusenet groups will disappear?

Will this one, too?
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Old May 21st, 2010, 10:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Robert Macy[_2_]
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On May 21, 11:18*am, trip_to_tokyo wrote:
Robert, my understanding is that it is being replaced by:-

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ory/officeword

Hope the above helps.



"Robert Macy" wrote:
How many, which ones, of microsoftusenet groups will disappear?


Will this one, too?
.


Thank you. Is there a URL to go to to find ALL abandoned
microsoft.public.xxxx sites?.

Frustratingly, upon clicking to go to that URL, my screen went from
this very efficient display containing 90% useful information to a
blank screen requiring a download of 1 minute (dial up link) to
produce a screen that has around 10% information. The rest of the
screen contains useless boxes, blank frames, prettiness with no
information, etc etc, and irrelevant words. Amazing, simply amazing.
Again, and in true tradition, someone was allowed to "improve" the
systems backwards!

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Old May 21st, 2010, 10:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Tom Willett[_2_]
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"Robert Macy" wrote in message
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Thank you. Is there a URL to go to to find ALL abandoned
microsoft.public.xxxx sites?.

The are ALL going away. Every last one of them.


  #6  
Old May 22nd, 2010, 06:38 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Graham Mayor
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Default will this usenet group disappear too?

Almost certainly the newsgroups will live on. What is changing is the link
to Microsoft's help forums, which (like many other similar web forums) have
been interfaced with the MS News server so what appears in one medium should
also appear in another. In future that link will be broken and the help
forums will change. NNTP access will then only be available to the new
Microsoft Answers forum via the NNTP Bridge. A new bridge for that purpose
was supposed to be available yesterday, but so far I see no sign of it at
http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/

Because of the way newsgroups are peered in Usenet, they will have a life of
their own even if/when Microsoft turns off their server. You will of course
need to find another text newsgroup server if you wish to continue using
them. There are plenty out there to choose from. Your ISP may provide a news
feed and that would be the first place to look. After that you need to look
for free text based news servers. They should also continue to be available
via Google Groups.

Inevitably as Microsoft steers its users elsewhere for their help, traffic
levels on the newsgroups will fall, and moderation may go out of the window
as Microsoft will not be spam filtering

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
How many, which ones, of microsoftusenet groups will disappear?

Will this one, too?



  #7  
Old May 22nd, 2010, 07:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Graham Mayor
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Default will this usenet group disappear too?

OK the link to the new bridge is now working - which is more than can be
said for the bridge. Let's hope it is sorted out over the weekend

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Almost certainly the newsgroups will live on. What is changing is the link
to Microsoft's help forums, which (like many other similar web forums)
have been interfaced with the MS News server so what appears in one medium
should also appear in another. In future that link will be broken and the
help forums will change. NNTP access will then only be available to the
new Microsoft Answers forum via the NNTP Bridge. A new bridge for that
purpose was supposed to be available yesterday, but so far I see no sign
of it at http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/

Because of the way newsgroups are peered in Usenet, they will have a life
of their own even if/when Microsoft turns off their server. You will of
course need to find another text newsgroup server if you wish to continue
using them. There are plenty out there to choose from. Your ISP may
provide a news feed and that would be the first place to look. After that
you need to look for free text based news servers. They should also
continue to be available via Google Groups.

Inevitably as Microsoft steers its users elsewhere for their help, traffic
levels on the newsgroups will fall, and moderation may go out of the
window as Microsoft will not be spam filtering

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
How many, which ones, of microsoftusenet groups will disappear?

Will this one, too?





  #8  
Old May 22nd, 2010, 09:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Yves Dhondt
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Posts: 560
Default will this usenet group disappear too?

The problems with the 'new bridge' will be exactly the same as with the old
one. The only changes are that the port is now configurable and that it
connects to the same service on a different server. Basically they split the
load and that's it. I guess the upside is that there are now less other
forums/threads where your post might end up if it goes wrong again.

For the people who can't run the original NNTP bridge because they have
already running something on port 119, this implementation could be a
workaround. All they would have to do is copy the files from the new bridge
to another directory, and edit NntpBridge.exe.config. If they change the
ForumsWebServiceUrl to the old one, and set the NntpServerPort to something
they like, they are good to go.

Yves

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
OK the link to the new bridge is now working - which is more than can be
said for the bridge. Let's hope it is sorted out over the weekend

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Almost certainly the newsgroups will live on. What is changing is the
link to Microsoft's help forums, which (like many other similar web
forums) have been interfaced with the MS News server so what appears in
one medium should also appear in another. In future that link will be
broken and the help forums will change. NNTP access will then only be
available to the new Microsoft Answers forum via the NNTP Bridge. A new
bridge for that purpose was supposed to be available yesterday, but so
far I see no sign of it at http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/

Because of the way newsgroups are peered in Usenet, they will have a life
of their own even if/when Microsoft turns off their server. You will of
course need to find another text newsgroup server if you wish to continue
using them. There are plenty out there to choose from. Your ISP may
provide a news feed and that would be the first place to look. After that
you need to look for free text based news servers. They should also
continue to be available via Google Groups.

Inevitably as Microsoft steers its users elsewhere for their help,
traffic levels on the newsgroups will fall, and moderation may go out of
the window as Microsoft will not be spam filtering

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
How many, which ones, of microsoftusenet groups will disappear?

Will this one, too?






  #9  
Old May 23rd, 2010, 07:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Graham Mayor
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Posts: 18,297
Default will this usenet group disappear too?

My comments were addressed more towards the fact that the new bridge was
released to the public yesterday and it simply didn't work. It crashed every
time with a variety of error messages. There were howls of complaint in the
MVP private newsgroups yesterday from other MVPs around the world who were
having the same problems. This morning I haven't checked the bridge yet, but
at least it appears to have downloaded the message headers without error, so
the signs are a little more hopeful.

As for the port, some ISPs and some companies block port 119 to prevent
newsgroup access. Having a configurable port should get around that - but
for others port 119 should still work if the application is re-directed
there - even if other news-servers are using port 119. Most users can leave
the new bridge set with the default port of 120.

My understanding - though again I haven't checked as nothing was working
properly yesterday - is that the Answers forum access has been removed from
the old bridge. I don't know what the thinking behind that was as if you are
not registered with the other services - MSDN etc - , the old bridge should
not be able to post in them.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
...
The problems with the 'new bridge' will be exactly the same as with the
old one. The only changes are that the port is now configurable and that
it connects to the same service on a different server. Basically they
split the load and that's it. I guess the upside is that there are now
less other forums/threads where your post might end up if it goes wrong
again.

For the people who can't run the original NNTP bridge because they have
already running something on port 119, this implementation could be a
workaround. All they would have to do is copy the files from the new
bridge to another directory, and edit NntpBridge.exe.config. If they
change the ForumsWebServiceUrl to the old one, and set the NntpServerPort
to something they like, they are good to go.

Yves

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
OK the link to the new bridge is now working - which is more than can be
said for the bridge. Let's hope it is sorted out over the weekend

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Almost certainly the newsgroups will live on. What is changing is the
link to Microsoft's help forums, which (like many other similar web
forums) have been interfaced with the MS News server so what appears in
one medium should also appear in another. In future that link will be
broken and the help forums will change. NNTP access will then only be
available to the new Microsoft Answers forum via the NNTP Bridge. A new
bridge for that purpose was supposed to be available yesterday, but so
far I see no sign of it at http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/

Because of the way newsgroups are peered in Usenet, they will have a
life of their own even if/when Microsoft turns off their server. You
will of course need to find another text newsgroup server if you wish to
continue using them. There are plenty out there to choose from. Your ISP
may provide a news feed and that would be the first place to look. After
that you need to look for free text based news servers. They should also
continue to be available via Google Groups.

Inevitably as Microsoft steers its users elsewhere for their help,
traffic levels on the newsgroups will fall, and moderation may go out of
the window as Microsoft will not be spam filtering

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
How many, which ones, of microsoftusenet groups will disappear?

Will this one, too?







  #10  
Old May 23rd, 2010, 08:51 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Graham Mayor
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Posts: 18,297
Default will this usenet group disappear too?

I have now checked and the bridge problems of yesterday seem to have been
fixed.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
My comments were addressed more towards the fact that the new bridge was
released to the public yesterday and it simply didn't work. It crashed
every time with a variety of error messages. There were howls of complaint
in the MVP private newsgroups yesterday from other MVPs around the world
who were having the same problems. This morning I haven't checked the
bridge yet, but at least it appears to have downloaded the message headers
without error, so the signs are a little more hopeful.

As for the port, some ISPs and some companies block port 119 to prevent
newsgroup access. Having a configurable port should get around that - but
for others port 119 should still work if the application is re-directed
there - even if other news-servers are using port 119. Most users can
leave the new bridge set with the default port of 120.

My understanding - though again I haven't checked as nothing was working
properly yesterday - is that the Answers forum access has been removed
from the old bridge. I don't know what the thinking behind that was as if
you are not registered with the other services - MSDN etc - , the old
bridge should not be able to post in them.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Yves Dhondt" wrote in message
...
The problems with the 'new bridge' will be exactly the same as with the
old one. The only changes are that the port is now configurable and that
it connects to the same service on a different server. Basically they
split the load and that's it. I guess the upside is that there are now
less other forums/threads where your post might end up if it goes wrong
again.

For the people who can't run the original NNTP bridge because they have
already running something on port 119, this implementation could be a
workaround. All they would have to do is copy the files from the new
bridge to another directory, and edit NntpBridge.exe.config. If they
change the ForumsWebServiceUrl to the old one, and set the NntpServerPort
to something they like, they are good to go.

Yves

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
OK the link to the new bridge is now working - which is more than can be
said for the bridge. Let's hope it is sorted out over the weekend

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Almost certainly the newsgroups will live on. What is changing is the
link to Microsoft's help forums, which (like many other similar web
forums) have been interfaced with the MS News server so what appears in
one medium should also appear in another. In future that link will be
broken and the help forums will change. NNTP access will then only be
available to the new Microsoft Answers forum via the NNTP Bridge. A new
bridge for that purpose was supposed to be available yesterday, but so
far I see no sign of it at
http://connect.microsoft.com/MicrosoftForums/

Because of the way newsgroups are peered in Usenet, they will have a
life of their own even if/when Microsoft turns off their server. You
will of course need to find another text newsgroup server if you wish
to continue using them. There are plenty out there to choose from. Your
ISP may provide a news feed and that would be the first place to look.
After that you need to look for free text based news servers. They
should also continue to be available via Google Groups.

Inevitably as Microsoft steers its users elsewhere for their help,
traffic levels on the newsgroups will fall, and moderation may go out
of the window as Microsoft will not be spam filtering

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
How many, which ones, of microsoftusenet groups will disappear?

Will this one, too?









 




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