What is the difference?

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What is the difference between the Microsoft Community
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" and the newsgroup
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" on the news server
"news.microsoft.com"?
 
What is the difference between the Microsoft Community
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" and the newsgroup
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" on the news server
"news.microsoft.com"?
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Two different ways to access the newsgroup, one via a the MS web
interface and one any way you want.
 
Travis said:
What is the difference between the Microsoft Community
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" and the newsgroup
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" on the news server
"news.microsoft.com"?
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It's the same newsgroup. The difference
is whether you access it on the web or in
your newsreader.

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Two different ways to access the same posts. The communities interface is
there primarily for users who are looking for solutions and are unaware of
newsgroups.
 
Steve Jain said:
Two different ways to access the newsgroup, one via a the MS web
interface and one any way you want.
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I access both via Windows Mail. What is the difference?
 
John Inzer said:
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It's the same newsgroup. The difference
is whether you access it on the web or in
your newsreader.
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I access both via Windows Mail which I use for text groups. I use Pan
for binaries.

So what is the difference?
 
Keith Miller MVP said:
Two different ways to access the same posts. The communities
interface is there primarily for users who are looking for solutions
and are unaware of newsgroups.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

Travis said:
What is the difference between the Microsoft Community
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" and the newsgroup
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" on the news server
"news.microsoft.com"?
Click to expand...
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What Communities interface?
 
Travis said:
I access both via Windows Mail which I use for text groups. I use Pan
for binaries.

So what is the difference?
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None...it's the same newsgroup
just a different way to access it.

--
John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Travis

The difference is that one is web based, which can only be accessed with a
browser, and the other is accessed with a newsreader like Windows Mail. Here
is a link to one of the web based community groups.

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...spx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

The web based groups are a mirror of what is posted on the newsgroups.
Windows mail does include some of the features of the web based interface.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


Travis said:
Keith Miller MVP said:
Two different ways to access the same posts. The communities interface
is there primarily for users who are looking for solutions and are
unaware of newsgroups.


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

Travis said:
What is the difference between the Microsoft Community
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" and the newsgroup
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" on the news server
"news.microsoft.com"?
Click to expand...
Click to expand...


What Communities interface?
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Basically 2 names for the exact same newsgroup. Can be reached either via
news.microsoft.com or msnews.microsoft.com in Windows Mail. The default one
already set up in WinMail is called Microsoft Communities and is accessed
via msnews.microsoft.com.
 
Ronnie Vernon MVP said:
Travis

The difference is that one is web based, which can only be accessed
with a browser, and the other is accessed with a newsreader like
Windows Mail. Here is a link to one of the web based community groups.
Click to expand...

I access Microsoft Communities with Windows Mail newsreader.
 
Travis said:
What is the difference between the Microsoft Community
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" and the newsgroup
"microsoft.public.windows.vista.general" on the news server
"news.microsoft.com"?
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One utilizes the crap CDO web interface, the other is not hobbled like that.

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Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html

Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
"DRM is not added to anything in Vista."

"Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
- T. S. Eliot
 
Nina,

So it's been a few weeks and no new idiotic quotes added to your site? You
slackin' ?
 
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