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Bruce Sinclair Bruce Sinclair is offline
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Default Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities

In article , Simon Lloyd wrote:

Nice thought but i was under the impression that these newsgroups will
be closed once the forums are settled. If they're still going to be
running then happy days :)


Yes, interseting point. I saw that MS said they would 'close' the groups ...
but AFAIK, most NNTP servers don't accept 'remove group' commands from
anyone except themselves. MS may find this more difficult to do thatn they
think (assuming they don't simply mean that they will take the NNTP
interface off their web site - that they can do).
Again, if MS did try to kill off the groups, there would be little to stop
people adding/creating them again.

Anyone got any more info on what MS really mean here ? :)