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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
A thought here, is everyone connecting to the NGs via the MS newsserver, or
via another newsserver? Will the others continue? Bob wrote in message ... Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort, consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment with less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search engines. Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a clean space. We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to the community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and resources to minimize disruption to the community discussions. We are working diligently on providing additional resources and information in local languages later this week. In the meantime, please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days. |
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
We know our members at http://www.thecodecage.com will be sad to see the end of integration with our forums and the newsgroups. Bob Phillips;717851 Wrote: A thought here, is everyone connecting to the NGs via the MS newsserver, or via another newsserver? Will the others continue? Bob wrote in message ... Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort, consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment with less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search engines. Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a clean space. We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to the community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and resources to minimize disruption to the community discussions. We are working diligently on providing additional resources and information in local languages later this week. In the meantime, please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days. -- Simon Lloyd Regards, Simon Lloyd 'Microsoft Office Help' (http://www.thecodecage.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon Lloyd's Profile: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/member.php?u=1 View this thread: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/sh...d.php?t=200579 http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz |
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My ISP (any I suspect many others at least in the US) no longer hosts
newsgroup access, supposedly due to widespread "piracy"/security issues on Newsgroup servers. I've had no luck locating a free newsgroup host and these MS ones are the last ones I could access (at least that I was interested in), so for me this truly is "the end".... Tim "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... A thought here, is everyone connecting to the NGs via the MS newsserver, or via another newsserver? Will the others continue? Bob wrote in message ... Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort, consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment with less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search engines. Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a clean space. We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to the community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and resources to minimize disruption to the community discussions. We are working diligently on providing additional resources and information in local languages later this week. In the meantime, please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days. |
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Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Online Communities
Tim,
http://www.eternal-september.org/ http://albasani.net/index.html.en -- HTH Bob "Tim Williams" wrote in message ... My ISP (any I suspect many others at least in the US) no longer hosts newsgroup access, supposedly due to widespread "piracy"/security issues on Newsgroup servers. I've had no luck locating a free newsgroup host and these MS ones are the last ones I could access (at least that I was interested in), so for me this truly is "the end".... Tim "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... A thought here, is everyone connecting to the NGs via the MS newsserver, or via another newsserver? Will the others continue? Bob wrote in message ... Date 5/4/2010 Starting in early summer 2010, Microsoft will begin progressively closing down the Microsoft public newsgroups to enrich conversations in the rapidly-growing forum platform. This decision is in response to worldwide market trends and evolving customer needs. Microsoft continues to invest in forums to reduce customer effort, consolidate community venues and make it easier for active contributors to retain their influence. Forums provide a healthy community environment with less spam and make answers easier to find by customers and search engines. Additionally, forums offer a better user and off-topic management platform that will improve customer satisfaction by facilitating discussions in a clean space. We understand that some newsgroups are still active, and important to the community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be rolling out tools and resources to minimize disruption to the community discussions. We are working diligently on providing additional resources and information in local languages later this week. In the meantime, please refer to the official Microsoft Newsgroup website http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.mspx concerning this issue. The Microsoft Newsgroup website will be made available in additional languages in the next few days. |
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Thanks Bob. Just the ticket.
Tim "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... Tim, http://www.eternal-september.org/ http://albasani.net/index.html.en -- HTH Bob "Tim Williams" wrote in message ... My ISP (any I suspect many others at least in the US) no longer hosts newsgroup access, supposedly due to widespread "piracy"/security issues on Newsgroup servers. I've had no luck locating a free newsgroup host and these MS ones are the last ones I could access (at least that I was interested in), so for me this truly is "the end".... Tim |
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