The Day After ???

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June 2, 8.00 am and everything running normal.
What's happening ?
Does anyone know ??

Regards
John
 
Hi Luke
Yes, long live the newsgroups, but I wouldn't start celebrating yet.
Microsoft is notorious for doing things when and where they want.
Regards
John
 
oooohhhh the grand old duke of york
he had ten thousand men
he marched them up to the top of the hill
and marched them down again . . .
 
June 2, 8.00 am and everything running normal.
What's happening ?
Does anyone know ??
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No one controls a given unmoderated newsgroup.

As I've said multiple times, Microsoft may withdraw its participation
in these newsgroups, but it lacks the power to terminate them.
 
Indeed Microsoft cannot terminate a newsgroup and even if they could anyone
could introduce their own Excel newsgroup, however Microsoft could withdraw
the free access to these newsgroups through their server. I personally have
no Newsgroup access through my ISP and so rely on the Microsoft portal.
 
Below is an extract 2 liner from MS' message "Final Reminder ..."
So .... what does it mean exactly?
 
Below is an extract 2 liner from MS' message "Final Reminder ..."
So .... what does it mean exactly?
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It means that whoever posted it doesn't understand AT ALL what Usenet
is, and what newsgroups are.
 
That can't be true. I'm looking at this from a pure simple user viewpoint. I
don't know how it all works. Right now I don't have any assurance what to
expect when MS finally kills/switches off its servers one day down the road,
with presumably the usual weblinks to get here well and truly dead.
 
That can't be true. I'm looking at this from a pure simple user viewpoint. I
don't know how it all works. Right now I don't have any assurance what to
expect when MS finally kills/switches off its servers one day down the road,
with presumably the usual weblinks to get here well and truly dead.
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So, get newsreader software and don't access Usenet by Web links. Or,
if you insist on a Web interface, use Google Groups -- but be aware
that a significant number of people have their software set to ignore
anything from Google Groups because the signal-to-noise ratio is so
effing low.
 
June 2, 8.00 am and everything running normal.
What's happening ?
Does anyone know ??
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I read and post to the MS news groups via msnews.microsoft.com. When I
logged into Thunderbird and clicked the expand ('+' button) to retrieve
new headers, I had several "news group does not exist do you want to
unsubscribe" messages. They are definitely removing groups from *their*
server.

This Excel group seems to be carried by news.eternal-september.org, so I
will just continue from there.
 
OK Dave, I did that.
When I click on newsgroups and put in excel I get "no matches"
Help an old man figure it out.
 
It looks like you're using Windows Live Mail.

I set it up in Outlook Express.

I added the server and set my access rules (id and password).
Then I was prompted to see if I wanted to download the list of newsgroups.

IIRC, I got a small list of newsgroups when I tried to set up the newsserver
without an id/password. I'm betting that happened to you.

If you refresh the list, then search for excel, I bet you'll be ok.
 
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