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+Bob+ wrote in
You know of an official decision on this point? Or are you making
assumptions based on the fact that there is no group yet?
It is an assumption. Do you have better information?
Strange - the original message from +Bob+ did not appear in my newsreader -
but Nil's respons did.
In fact - several responses did not appear for me, obviously...
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...a.general/browse_frm/thread/7d2654859808dee0/
Oh... I see +Bob+ requested no archival... (How unfortunate it received
several responses without such requests now. *grin*) Don't know why I did
not see "milt" though. *shrug*
"Note: The author of this message requested that it not be archived. This
message will be removed from Groups in 6 days (Mar 31, 1:22 pm)."
Although there may/may not have been official word from Microsoft, it is
painfully obvious the intention is to attempt (at least) to move towards
web-based forums. Perhaps in a hope that what happened almost immediately
in the Vista groups (mostly because the setup for them was practically a
default in Windows Vista, I think) and still is happening (spam, people that
have no purpose there, at least not the intended purpose of said groups,
etc) might be a bit better controlled. Perhaps just moving the way
everything else has moved - away from the basic newsgroups that have been
around a *long* time and priven themselves quite reliable to something more
modern and natural/comfortable to the 'share everything, all the time'
generation?
