I think that the NNTP-Posting-Host represents my IP and ISP.

But the
Path: TK2MSFTNGP01.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl
shows a direct link.

And someday with all the social networking nonsense (my term), I think questions
and answers will have to be done in 140 characters or less.

Plain old text isn't very sexy.

And worksheetfunctions (without the dot) is gone from those 3 free newsservers.
(It may have taken years, though!)




Harlan Grove wrote:

Dave Peterson wrote...
Verizon.net is my ISP, but they've stopped carrying newsgroups a while ago. I
connect directly to the MSServers to post here.
...

OK. Odd that your response to which I'm responding here carries the
tag

NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-105-124-151.chi.dsl-w.verizon.net
70.105.124.151

I think the main problem will be if MS sends out remove group command. I don't
know if others servers will respect those requests.
...

Didn't work for microsoft.public.excel.worksheetfunctions, that is, if
MSFT tried doing so when they replaced that newsgroup with
microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions.

I don't mind Google Groups because it provides a tree view of article-
response threads. MSFT's web format is much less usable, at least for
me.

Who knows? Maybe this'll breath new life into comp.apps.spreadsheets.
Doubt it, though.

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Dave Peterson