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Newsgroups going bye-bye
I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of
a Forum format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft Forums. I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...quired&ppud=4]. I have 2 questions. 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we Excel oriented people can hang out? -- Gary Brown |
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Newsgroups going bye-bye
this is the one i was directed to.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ry/officeexcel i'm not impressed. Regards FSt1 "Gary Brown" wrote: I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of a Forum format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft Forums. I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...quired&ppud=4]. I have 2 questions. 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we Excel oriented people can hang out? -- Gary Brown |
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Newsgroups going bye-bye
Unless MS has something that they have not unveiled, that is their
replacement for the newsgroups. Like you, I was not all that overwhelmed but with time, maybe it can develop into something. I like the chat room environment much better. "FSt1" wrote in message ... this is the one i was directed to. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ry/officeexcel i'm not impressed. Regards FSt1 "Gary Brown" wrote: I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of a Forum format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft Forums. I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...quired&ppud=4]. I have 2 questions. 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we Excel oriented people can hang out? -- Gary Brown |
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Newsgroups going bye-bye
Another one for VBA:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...isvvba/threads -- Gary''s Student - gsnu201003 "FSt1" wrote: this is the one i was directed to. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ry/officeexcel i'm not impressed. Regards FSt1 "Gary Brown" wrote: I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of a Forum format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft Forums. I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...quired&ppud=4]. I have 2 questions. 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we Excel oriented people can hang out? -- Gary Brown |
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Newsgroups going bye-bye
On 25/05/2010 14:09, Gary Brown wrote:
I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of a Forum format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft Forums. Wait and see :-) The MickeySoft NNTP server may well be turned off and cease to exist on 1 Jun1 2010 but I expect that is just about all that happens. I doubt they will be able to cancel their newsgroups existing on all the global newservers (and even if they tried how many would honour cancels?). It is easy to create newsgroups but very hard to remove them! I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...quired&ppud=4]. I have 2 questions. 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we Excel oriented people can hang out? Stay around here at least until traffic completely expires. Regards, Martin Brown |
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Newsgroups going bye-bye
here are some of my views on the transition:
1. For those of us that participate a lot, mvp's, beta team members and just people that like to help, the web based forums offer no way to: a. Search for messages posted by the "me", across a multitude of forums. i. In an nntp client, they're all in my sent folder. b. No way to search for key words in forum posts across a multitude of forums. i. In an nntp client, they are all in a folder. c . Save forum posts for future reference. i. I can drag them into a folder on my pc and have them forever. ii. In a web based forum, what do I do, drag a hundred links to posts scattered throughout the internet? Then, how do I search these by poster or keyword? 2. web based forums are slow. then they implement the annoying transition effects to make them appear even slower. the only person the forums will not annoy is the one-time poster. other than that, they are totally useless, in my opinion. -- Gary Keramidas Excel 2003 "FSt1" wrote in message ... this is the one i was directed to. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ry/officeexcel i'm not impressed. Regards FSt1 "Gary Brown" wrote: I read the thread that Microsofot is discontinuing this newsgroup in favor of a Forum format. The thread said that the newsgroups are being used less and less and the forums are being used more and more. So I went to the Microsoft Forums. I could only find one for Excel - 'Excel for Developers' Forum [http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...quired&ppud=4]. I have 2 questions. 1) Is it true about June 1st being the drop-dead date for this newsgroup? 2) Does anyone know which Microsoft Forums they're talking about where we Excel oriented people can hang out? -- Gary Brown |
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