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using jochen's bridge helps a lot. i'm sorry to see you go, but i really
wish every mvp would boycott the useless forums. then microsoft may listen. i doubt it, but you never now. but, these were some of my original thoughts on moving from nntp to web based forums: 1. For those of us that participate a lot, mvp's, beta team members and just people that like to help, the web based forums offer no way to: a. Search for messages posted by the "me", across a multitude of forums. i. In an nntp client, they're all in my sent folder. you know you posted an excel answer somewhere, but you visit half a dozen excel forums. find the post in the web based forums. good luck. b. No way to search for key words in forum posts across a multitude of forums. i. In an nntp client, they are all in a folder. c . Save forum posts for future reference. i. I can drag them into a folder on my pc and have them forever. ii. In a web based forum, what do I do, drag a hundred links to posts scattered throughout the internet? Then, how do I search these by poster or keyword? navigation: 1. i can see and manipulate more than 30 posts and view them in the preview pane of the nntp client without having to open the posts in the browser window and then click the back button to get back to the home page. 2. i could really care less how many views a post has, that is useless information. 3. it's slow, then they use transition effects to make it appear even slower. 4. then they have their damn ad's in there taking time to download. 5. they can't even program the web pages correctly. this makes a lot of senseShowing 21 to 40 of 29) -- Gary Keramidas Excel 2003 -- Gary Keramidas Excel 2003 "David Biddulph" groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote in message ... I'm still hoping that a reasonable number of news servers will continue to carry the newsgroups, and that therefore the groups will be able to continue providing help to users. I'm not currently planning on shifting to the MS forums, so to any who don't plan to stay here in the newsgroups, thanks for all your help over the years. -- David Biddulph "Ron de Bruin" wrote in message ... Hi all Today is a sad day because tomorrow MS will close the Excel newsgroups. I want to say that I hade a great time in the Excel groups the last years. Sharing knowledge is a great thing After tomorrow we must use the MS forums and I hope it will give me the same fun as I hade with the newsgroups. Maybe this page will help you if you start using the MS Forums and not like the web interface http://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm Thanks everybody for everything, see you in the MS Forums -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl/tips.htm |
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