The End Is Near

Well, miraculously, to the best of my knowledge, none of my 2,000+ forum
posts (a great many of which direct people to non-Microsoft
answers/solutions) have been deleted.

Actually, that's not true...*I* deleted one of my posts once when, just
after posting it, I realized I had misread the question and given an
incorrect answer. I then reposted with what I believed to be a better
answer.

Otherwise...

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"Tom Willett" wrote in message
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"Bob I" wrote in message
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: Seems that "solution" would be implicitly promoting a violation of the
: licensing agreement. I don't think that constitutes "arbitrary", does
it?

People are going to be shocked at how much will be deleted in the forums.

"Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote in message
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Well surely a newsgroup veteran like yourself knows full well that MVPs
are not Microsoft employees. If an MVP decided to delete your post then
that was an individual's decision.


But that's the whole point - it was an INDIVIDUAL, ARBITRARY decision.
NO-ONE should be allowed to delete posts.

"Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote in message
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Well surely a newsgroup veteran like yourself knows full well that MVPs
are not Microsoft employees. If an MVP decided to delete your post then
that was an individual's decision.


In addition, posts can and should be deleted IF they are racist, abusive etc
etc. Mine certainly was NOT.

It's gonna be a whole new ballgame, Gordon. All you can do is get used to
it.

Tom
"Gordon" wrote in message
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:
: "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote in message
: ...
: Well surely a newsgroup veteran like yourself knows full well that MVPs
: are not Microsoft employees. If an MVP decided to delete your post then
: that was an individual's decision.
:
:
: But that's the whole point - it was an INDIVIDUAL, ARBITRARY decision.
: NO-ONE should be allowed to delete posts.
:

"Gordon" wrote:


"Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote in message
...
Well surely a newsgroup veteran like yourself knows full well that MVPs
are not Microsoft employees. If an MVP decided to delete your post then
that was an individual's decision.


But that's the whole point - it was an INDIVIDUAL, ARBITRARY decision.
NO-ONE should be allowed to delete posts.

I was an MVP for something like 12 years, and I can tell you that MVPs
CANNOT delete posts. Whatever happened to you, it was NOT an MVP
deleting your post.

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"Tim Slattery" wrote in message
news : "Gordon" wrote:
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:
: "Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote in message
: ...
: Well surely a newsgroup veteran like yourself knows full well that MVPs
: are not Microsoft employees. If an MVP decided to delete your post
then
: that was an individual's decision.
:
:
: But that's the whole point - it was an INDIVIDUAL, ARBITRARY decision.
: NO-ONE should be allowed to delete posts.
:
: I was an MVP for something like 12 years, and I can tell you that MVPs
: CANNOT delete posts. Whatever happened to you, it was NOT an MVP
: deleting your post.
:

If the MVP is a moderator, he would be deleting it.
: --
: Tim Slattery
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I was an MVP for something like 12 years, and I can tell you that MVPs
CANNOT delete posts. Whatever happened to you, it was NOT an MVP
deleting your post.

This is true of newsgroups like this. It's not necessarily true of the new
forums that Gordon's talking about, if I'm not mistaken. Moderators there,
some of whom are MVPs, can delete posts.

If moderators are deleting posts simply because they're critical of MS, then
there probably won't be many MVP+moderators left after a short while.

:
: This is true of newsgroups like this. It's not necessarily true of the
new
: forums that Gordon's talking about, if I'm not mistaken. Moderators
there,
: some of whom are MVPs, can delete posts.

:
: If moderators are deleting posts simply because they're critical of MS,
then
: there probably won't be many MVP+moderators left after a short while.

Perhaps the MS guidelines allow for it. At this point, it's all
second-guessing. Only MS and the Moderators know for sure.

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:

"Tom Willett" wrote:


If the MVP is a moderator, he would be deleting it.

These groups are not moderated. MS has filtering software that blocks
out spam. They don't tell anybody exactly how it works and exactly
what's filtered, definitely not MVPs.

Some MS employee(s) somewhere has (have) power to delete postings on
msnews.microsoft.com. Definitely NOT MVPs (who are not MS employees).

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Tim Slattery

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

Steve Rindsberg wrote:

This is true of newsgroups like this. It's not necessarily true of the new
forums that Gordon's talking about, if I'm not mistaken. Moderators there,
some of whom are MVPs, can delete posts.

OK, I know nothing about the forums. I accept what you say.

If moderators are deleting posts simply because they're critical of MS, then
there probably won't be many MVP+moderators left after a short while.

I'd certainly agree with that!

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Tim Slattery

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