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Hi All,
I have seen various posts on this newsgroup that it has now been closed down. The number of postings over the past few days seem to support this. I have used, and contributed to this newsgroup, for several years now and have found it to be the most useful source of information for all things related to Excel & VBA on the internet. I will be very sad if its demise is imminent. My understanding is that this newsgroup is to be replaced by a 'forum'. Please would all the MVP's and regular contributors let us know which forums they will be monitoring & responding to in the future. If any of the above is inaccurate l would be grateful for any clarity on the subject Thank you all for your help over the past years. Regards Michael beckinsale |
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On Jun 11, 6:00*am, "michael.beckinsale"
wrote: Hi All, I have seen various posts on this newsgroup that it has now been closed down. The number of postings over the past few days seem to support this. I have used, and contributed to this newsgroup, for several years now and have found it to be the most useful source of information for all things related to Excel & VBA on the internet. I will be very sad if its demise is imminent. My understanding is that this newsgroup is to be replaced by a 'forum'. Please would all the MVP's and regular contributors let us know which forums they will be monitoring & responding to in the future. If any of the above is inaccurate l would be grateful for any clarity on the subject Thank you all for your help over the past years. Regards Michael beckinsale Hi Michael: Standard Excel forums are he http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...ult.aspx#tab=4 Another VBA forum is he http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...isvvba/threads Excel for developers forum is he http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...celdev/threads Excel for IT people is he http://social.technet.microsoft.com/.../excel/threads As you see, Answers, TechNet, and MSDN each supply separate support. gsnu201003 |
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This may be completely wrong:
Newsgroups live on the NNTP network. Users from all over the world connect to different newsservers. And each newsserver saves messages (length of time and which groups will vary with each newsserver). Since the messages are spread out over lots and lots of newsservers, no one server controls all the newsgroups. But the MSNewservers are being phased out. I'm sure that they'll send out a "please remove microsoft.public.xxx.yyy" message. But each newsserver will decide to respect that request or ignore it. If the one you connect to decide to remove the ms.public newsgroups, then you'll have to find another newsserver that continues to carry them. Right now, I don't think anyone knows what those individual newsservers will do. I used to directly connect to the msnews server. Now I connect to 3 free newsserver (but only use one). news.aioe.org (some limits, like: 25 posts per day)) news.eternal-september.org (http://www.eternal-september.org to read about it) news.albasani.net I was using the aioe.org server for lurking in other newsgroups, but now I'm using the eternal-september.org newsserver to read and post. All 3 seem ok to me. (The bottom two require registration (free).) The volume of questions has gone down (a lot!) and I think that the number of spam messages is greater than the msservers. (MS did a nice job cleaning that junk.) ======= As for the MS web based stuff. I find that difficult to use. But the community bridge by Jochen Kalmbach works pretty darn nice. It provides a way to access these forums via your newsreader. (I didn't have to change that!) Ron de Bruin has some notes he http://www.rondebruin.nl/nntpbridge.htm Ron's notes include a link to the MS supported bridges -- in case something changes and Jochen's Community Bridge is broken. If you can use a newsreader (are you blocked at work???), you may not notice too much of a difference! These are the forums I connect to: Answers.en-US.excelform Answers.en-US.excelshare Answers.en-US.excslcreate (note the typo in the spelling of excel!) Msdn.en-US.exceldev technet.en-us.excel Answers.en-US.officeprog Answers.en-US.excelchart Msdn.en-US.testForumsVV Answers.en-US.answerssandbox The bottom two are used for testing to make sure you can post in the format you like. (Every once in a while, I search for us.excel to see if there are more English language Excel forums.) The .officeprog seems to be a catchall group for all of the individual programs in the Office suite. It can be a problem to sift through to get to those important excel questions <vbg. I don't think the volume of posts matches the newsgroups from a few weeks ago. But I bet users are still searching for these forums. On 06/11/2010 05:00, michael.beckinsale wrote: Hi All, I have seen various posts on this newsgroup that it has now been closed down. The number of postings over the past few days seem to support this. I have used, and contributed to this newsgroup, for several years now and have found it to be the most useful source of information for all things related to Excel& VBA on the internet. I will be very sad if its demise is imminent. My understanding is that this newsgroup is to be replaced by a 'forum'. Please would all the MVP's and regular contributors let us know which forums they will be monitoring& responding to in the future. If any of the above is inaccurate l would be grateful for any clarity on the subject Thank you all for your help over the past years. Regards Michael beckinsale -- Dave Peterson |
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James / David,
Many thanks for the info which will take a bit of digesting! I hope other regular posters & MVP's will contirbute to this post over the next few days / weeks so that everybody knows where to look and then hoprfully we can all continue to get the same level of excellent support that this newsgroup has supplied in the past. My thoughts are if isn't broke don't fix it, but you never know with MS Regards Michael |
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